Little Journeys

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…

Family [Private] History

I was back in Illinois this past week, helping move my parents into their new, one-bedroom assisted living apartment. They had lived in the same 1919 two-story, four-square home since 1949, so leaving it, my mom’s four outdoor cats, their…

Stepping Back to 1917

As much as I enjoy going up to the Grove Park Inn each time I am in Asheville, strolling across the access road over to the grounds of the 1917 Biltmore Industries is really like stepping back in time. Beginning in 1917, the five stucco and…

The Boettcher Mansion Revisited

Some recent news from our Arts and Crafts friends in Colorado stirred a memory for me more than ten years old. Back when I was an Odyssey of the Mind coach for my son’s school, we journeyed to Boulder for the world finals. One afternoon I…

Back Up Sunset Mountain

A trip up to the Grove Park Inn last week was met with a chorus of questions. Actually, a chorus of one repeated question: “Are you ready for the Conference?” While I occasionally have to remind our attendees that within the year-long…

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