Little Journeys

An Overdue Tribute

Someone asked me last week how it is that the National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn has lasted 31 years. Obviously, there are many reasons to cite, but I’ll add a name you don't know to the list. Tom Smith. Tom Smith…

Looking Ahead

This week I find myself not looking back at any journey I have recently taken, but forward to the coming weeks when we have a flurry of Arts and Crafts events on the schedule. While we have (or will have) provided in-depth information on each…

Hibernation

Not long ago I received a delightful, hand-written letter from one of our exhibitors at the National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn. In it she thanked me for a wonderful show, and passed on a recommendation for a potential…

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…

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