Little Journeys

Its a Celebration!

With the Arts and Crafts Conference just a matter of weeks away, I don’t make many unnecessary trips away from our office, where we are finishing up the 88-page Conference Catalog. Over at her end of the office, Kate is typing name badges…

A Forgotten Designer

What little-known individual is responsible for introducing tens of thousands of people to the Arts and Crafts style? Henry Haven Windsor. While you may have never heard his name, you probably have heard of one of his publications:  Popular…

Winter Musings

Growing up on the Illinois prairie, we learned at an early age that winter could arrive on Thanksgiving Day and decide not to leave until Easter Sunday. Here in the eastern foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, winter is more…

Another Workshop Project

Once again, my most significant journey this past week was no further than my garage workshop, but after the success of regluing the seam separation you may have seen in last week’s column, I was ready to undertake another project. This…

A Workshop Repair

My latest little journey took me no further than my own workshop, which is in a two-car garage over which ten years ago I built an 800-square-foot office. Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's writing studio over a similar garage in Key West, I returned…

A Column About Six Columns

I can’t say that I have been inside any building in which the support columns were a major source of conversation and debate – other than the 1913 Grove Park Inn. These six prominent columns in the Great Hall lobby have at their core a…

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