Little Journeys

If It’s Too Good To Be True . . . .

It probably isn’t. And in this case, it wasn’t. My good friend Jim Wilson alerted me to an Arts and Crafts bookcase in an Asheville thrift shop last week, just a few days after the Arts and Crafts Conference. He knew it wasn’t a Stickley,…

Avoiding Auction Remorse

It almost happened to me again last week. Even with nearly fifty years of experience, I came within the flick of a finger of bringing home something I would have regretted the next morning. (No, not another dog.) A link to a local auctioneer’s…

Final Conference Report

It’s almost hard to know where to start. Like the two wings on the historic Grove Park Inn, the National Arts and Crafts Conference has always had two major components:  the educational elements and the selling shows. And the two components…

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,…

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