Little Journeys

Hemingway’s Six-Toed Cats

When I was a senior in high school, Tom Smith, my English instructor, pulled three of us aside and gave us our choice of three term paper topics:  William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Faulkner mystified me, Hemingway…

Springs Rocks!

April in North Carolina is still too soon for planting herbs, but not for getting a new planting bed ready. A few years ago I took a landscaping shortcut, the kind that always comes back to haunt you, by building this low retaining wall for…

Caution: Genius At Work

As you may have noticed, in recent weeks we have featured articles about the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, universally celebrated as the most influential architect of the 20th century. Coincidentally, I was recently in Davenport, Iowa,…

Finding Frank, Again

This week's articles on the Toomey & Co. auction in Oak Park, Illinois, and the Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School masterpiece in South Chicago, prompted me to pull from our archives a little journey I made to Oak Park several…

Penelope Cloutier Passes Away

It isn’t often in the Arts and Crafts world that someone is known simply by their first name, but anyone who had the good fortune to know Penelope Clourtier immediately understood why to her friends she was always “Penelope.” And our…

Coming Up For Air

Boy, has this week slipped by fast. It is already Thursday and I am just now writing my column and sending out the weekly blast. To catch up on what happened at the end of the conference, it took until the wee hours of Monday morning to get…

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