Little Journeys

Giving One of My Favorite Talks

Mention Asheville and invariably either one of two names will come up:  the 1895 Biltmore Estate or the 1913 Grove Park Inn. While the Biltmore House represents the opulence of the late Victorian age at its finest, and the Grove Park Inn stands…

Dan Lopez, 1945-2017

I was saddened to learn of the recent death of a Dan Lopez, a good friend, an Arts and Crafts antiques dealer, and an early supporter of the National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn. Dan, who was 72, passed away at his home…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Little Journey

As you may have seen last week, my recent trip down to Lake Lure prompted me to relive that day in September of 1936 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his own trip from the Grove Park Inn down to the Lake Lure Inn, where his motorcade…

Time In a Bottle?

We took a drive down to Lake Lure this past weekend, a small reward for having spent a day mowing, weed-eating and landscaping around the farm. Lake Lure has again been in the news lately, what with the release of the remake of “Dirty Dancing.”…

From Wedding to Workshop in Seven Days

You would think that with a week which began in Palm Springs, California, at my brother-in-law’s wedding and ended with my first 400-meter race of the 2017 Senior Games track season, I would have enough stories to fill an entire website, but…

A Trip Up Sunset Mountain

My latest little journey took me up Sunset Mountain to the Grove Park Inn overlooking Asheville to meet with the hotel’s sales director. Even after thirty years, I never mind going up to the Grove Park Inn, even if for a business meeting,…

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