Little Journeys

Why Do We Collect?

This article has been re-published - its original publish date was September 5th, 2016. Story has been edited to include a new cover photo.   In the end, someone recently told me, all we really have are our memories. In the meantime,…

My Only Two Golfing Stories

I don’t golf, which is either a curse or a blessing, depending on your perspective, but I do have two golfing stories. The first took place when I was a sophomore at Western Illinois University, back at a time when two years of Physical…

Road Trip Time

This article has been re-published. Original publish date was September 13th, 2015.   After spending too many frustrating days and a few tortuous nights in airport terminals, I always look forward to an occasional summer road trip.…

“It’s Got Two Shopmarks!”

When I first moved to North Carolina in 1985, I mailed a postcard to more than a hundred antiques shops in our four-state area, showing a flat-arm L. & J.G. Stickley Morris chair and letting them know I was a serious collector of Arts…

A Return to Main Street

Located about twenty miles south of Asheville, the small town of Hendersonville, North Carolina, population 13,500, is easy to overlook. Like Asheville, it sprang up nearly two centuries ago as an overnight stop for cattle and hog drovers working…

An Art and Crafts Nature Center

Originally posted on July 19, 2015. This article has been updated with new pictures.   It all started with a bull moose named “Reckless.” It was 1982 and I owned an antiques restoration business called Knock On Wood, along with…

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