Little Journeys

Conference Report: Sunday Morning

As someone said yesterday, “If they hadn’t built this hotel out of granite boulders, we would have pushed the walls out.” As nerve-wracking as Friday was, waiting to see how many people would come through the doors, Saturday could be…

Saturday Conference Report

I must confess:  Friday of the Arts and Crafts Conference is always the hardest day in my entire year. And it’s not so much the work as it is the worry. On Friday morning I worry about those two or three empty booths, wondering if the…

Friday Conference Report

Aided by sunny skies without even a hint of rain, our load-in process started smoothly at 8:00am Thursday morning and proceeded just as smoothly throughout the day. With the vast majority of our exhibitors returning – several for the 28th,…

Thursday Conference Report

Wednesday of Arts and Crafts Conference week is always both worrisome and satisfying, for this is the day that we transform two empty ballrooms, ten meeting rooms, two hallways and a pair of registration desks into the skeleton of an Arts…

Wednesday Report: Moving In Day

There is always something about a milestone anniversary, in this case our thirtieth, that causes one to reflect on how things have changed. As I drove up Sunset Mountain yesterday and caught my first glimpse of the Grove Park Inn this week,…

Tuesday Report: Chasing 2000 Calendars

While I often tell people that I live in Asheville, in truth fifteen years ago I moved from north Asheville to an unincorporated “town” six miles away by the name of Fairview. In truth, Fairview consists of a small bank, a smaller post…

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