Little Journeys

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…

“The more we know, the more we don’t know.”

That statement aptly applies to researching Arts and Crafts firms and individuals whose work we admire and collect. Regardless what we collect, we share a common thread:  we love information as much as we love those items. And what is also…

Make a Difference

Since 2006, when I announced the formation of the non-profit Arts and Crafts Research Fund (ACRF), one of the most popular aspects of the National Arts and Crafts Conference has been the silent auction to benefit the ACRF. Held on Friday and…

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