Little Journeys

“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…

The Thomas Wolfe Home

Here in Asheville we have, as many cities do, a few notable house museums. Our most famous – that being the 1895 Biltmore House, which George Vanderbilt built and which is still maintained and operated by his descendants – attracts more…

A Basement Transformation

  Being an eternal optimist, in 2002 I bought a 1972 split-level ranch house atop a wooded knoll with panoramic, sunset views of towering Mt. Pisgah and the misty Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. “I can improve the house,” I…

February is Coming!

It hardly seems possible that we are already at the mid-point of 2018. Last February’s National Arts and Crafts Conference is still fresh in my mind, but now that next February’s conference at the Omni Grove Park Inn here in Asheville is…

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