Little Journeys

Conference Report: Wednesday

While the conference itself is still a couple of days away, for us Tuesday afternoon is our setup day and “soft open.” Kate and I packed our vehicles with tubs, computers, tote bags, name badges and six file boxes of folders, and headed…

Conference Week: Tuesday Update

As much as I would like to think that the National Arts and Crafts Conference is the highlight of the year for the Grove Park Inn, I was reminded yesterday that we are just one weekend for them in a very busy year. But as most of the staff…

Conference Week: Monday

When it gets to Monday of Conference Week, people have just one main question: “What’s the weather going to be like?” Well, yesterday a flock of robins made their first appearance in our woods, and a few brave jonquils have poked up…

Letting Go

Thirty-some years ago, when I made my first little journey up Sunset Mountain to the 1913 Grove Park Inn, I wandered about the Great Hall, totally overwhelmed by the towering, two-story twin fireplaces. They had been constructed not of fieldstone…

Excitement Growing on Sunset Mountain

With the National Arts and Crafts Conference just days away, the only journeys I’m making are up Sunset Mountain to the Grove Park Inn. There I meet with various departments about everything from security guards and parking to audio-visual…

A Man On a Mission

The woman’s voice caught me off-guard, coming from behind me as I crouched on my hands and knees peering up into the underside of an oak Arts and Crafts rocking chair. “You look like a man on a mission.” At first I thought it was a feeble…

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