Little Journeys

Coming Full Circle

I started the final phase of our Arts and Crafts garden shed last Saturday:  shingling the roof. And as soon as I pulled the first green shingle off the top bundle, I could see Mason Hall. As a bit of background, I am the oldest of my parents’…

A Forgotten Candidate

I spent much of the past two weeks back in Illinois, visiting my family and driving my 87-year-old mother back and forth to the hospital where my 91-year-old father was recuperating from an infection. My early morning runs took me around my…

Its Now An ‘Arts & Crafts’ Garden Shed

As you may recall from an earlier column, I have been building a garden shed for Leigh Ann on a small knoll behind our house. As Thoreau would have said, it’s a simple structure, just 8-feet wide and 12-feet long with 7-foot tall walls and…

A Tale of Two Sideboards

It seems like each time I declare that, for the lack of any real antiques, I’m never setting foot in another antiques mall, I spot something that renews my faith. Last week it was a Gustav Stickley sideboard -- badly refinished, polished hardware,…

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Actually, it was Jan, my assistant, who has been on vacation these past few weeks, so rather than working on the 31st National Arts and Crafts Conference -- which will be taking place February 16-18 -- I did the next best thing. I built Leigh…

History Repeating Itself – Again

If you have followed many of my columns, you know of the close connection I have with the Grove Park Inn. In addition to hosting the annual National Arts and Crafts Conference at the 1913 resort, I also wrote its first official history, Built…

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