Little Journeys

A Flood Retrospective

When it started raining two weeks ago, I glibly commented, “Rain is easier to handle than a drought.” Now I’m not so sure. Here in western North Carolina we just experienced an unusual double whammy:  an Atlantic Ocean front that rolled…

A Day of Three Ironies

My son Eric was home for a week, so we decided to make a return trip to downtown Asheville’s historic house museum honoring Thomas Wolfe, author of Look Homeward, Angel (1929). The late Victorian home had also served as a boarding house run…

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…

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