Little Journeys

Collecting Stories

  I grew up in a small town on the Illinois prairie, one which fit Garrison Keillor’s classification of being so small that no one ever used their turn signal, simply because everyone already knew where you were going.     With…

Thinking Through Craft at the Grove Park Inn

  “We’re different.” That’s one of the first lines you’ll read when you go to the website of Warren Wilson College, which I did last Monday in preparation for a tour I volunteered to lead for a group of their students enrolled…

Judging a Book By Its Cover?

  “Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.” - Oscar Wilde     Oscar Wilde may have exaggerated what it takes to be an historian, if only to make his point, but he inspired me to turn his phrase ever…

A Prized Footstool

  Cleaning up a Gustav Stickley footstool last week, after bringing it out of our temporary storage unit, also brought back a couple of early memories.   When I moved to North Carolina in 1985, furniture collectors here were obsessed…

Coming Home to Roost

  “It is just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” - Frank Lloyd Wright   As many of you who attended this month’s 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference here in Asheville know too well, traveling…

A Close Call

by Bruce Johnson   For 3,126 of you, your latest little journey was up Sunset Mountain to the 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows at the iconic 1913 Grove Park Inn.     The day after the conference, mine…

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