Little Journeys

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…

Monday Conference Report

Monday of Arts and Crafts week is our last day in the office, as Alex, Jan and I are packing up dozens of cardboard boxes and vinyl tubs filled with name badges, plastic holders, books, catalogs, magazines, auction items, donations for drawings,…

Silent Auction Techniques

Well, with the 30th National Arts and Crafts Conference now just days away, the boxes have begun piling up in the office:  name badges, magazines to distribute, calendars to hand out, books, postcards, posters, tote bags, envelopes and, of…

A Collecting Milestone – Or Not?

I passed a collecting milestone recently, and still have mixed emotions about it. In 1986, after moving from Iowa City to North Carolina, I discovered the Asheville silversmith William Waldo Dodge (1895-1971), who produced an array of sterling…

Top 10 Questions About the Conference

With the 30th National Arts and Crafts Conference now just a few weeks away, I’m not headed far from the office phone, so I thought this would be a good time to answer some of the more common questions we have been getting here: Is the…

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