Little Journeys

A Valentine’s Day Warning

by Bruce Johnson Valentine’s Day, as many of you know from experience, generally falls early in the week of the February National Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows at the Omni-Grove Park Inn overlooking Asheville, NC. As my wife will attest,…

Chasing Scott

Original publication date: February 8th, 2014. Article has been edited to include a cover photo of F. Scott Fitzgerald.   In the past, I have taken "little journeys" down to Lake Lure, a drive that took me past the 1927 Lake Lure Inn,…

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…

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