From Manhattan to Manhattan: 1312 Miles
What a difference a few weeks -- and a few miles -- can make.
From mid-town Manhattan to mid-Kansas Manhattan.
I might as well have been in two different countries.
After making a Minwax appearance in New York a few weeks ago, and a Kansas…
A (Non-Golfing) Trip to Pinehurst
I followed Leigh Ann to Pinehurst, North Carolina, last weekend, where she was attending a three-day conference and accumulating several of her required continuing education credits. For those of you, like myself, who have not succumb to the…
A Most Unusual Prop
Several years ago, when Leigh Ann and I were first dating, my office was in the downstairs of my split-level, 1972 ranch house a few miles outside Asheville. One day, as we were having lunch there together, one of my employees casually came…
Arts and Crafts Therapy
If you saw my column last week, you know that I spent a good deal of my time in New Jersey and New York, where I encountered the Cadillac ad captioned with an Elbert Hubbard quotation. Naturally, upon returning home I had a couple of days…
Back to the Big Apple
I made my first trip to New York City in 1978, when I was researching an obscure New York politician and defense attorney by the name of Dudley Field Malone (1882-1950) (man on the left). Researching back in 1978, of course, meant spending…
About Us
ArtsandCraftsCollector.com is a website dedicated to exploring the works, artisans, historical origins and the contemporary revival of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The historic movement started as a response to the country’s Industrial Revolution and encouraged simple design paying tribute to the natural world over the intricate design of the Victorian era.