by Kate Nixon
As I clicked the "Leave Meeting" button on my two-hour Zoom hosted panel discussion on the state of historic preservation -- an offering for both the online conference attendees and a free open forum for the general public…
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by Kate Nixon
Yes, this Little Journeys is music-themed.
I know. It's a stretch to talk about "The Craft" as it applies to music when there are dozens of topics to cover in the world of collecting works from the Arts & Crafts movement.…
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by Kate Nixon
Editor's note: this author is well aware that the effects of the Covid pandemic will vary from person to person, some folks unfortunately have had it so much worse. This is just one of the many experiences out there and I do not…
For years, I only knew her as the initials “J.E.B.”
Hand-written in tiny script, always neatly, I would find them tucked away at the end of notes she had written me, starting as early as 1914, having no idea who I might be.
“This…
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by Kate Nixon
When I was younger, if someone said the phrase "historic preservation", I immediately thought about my hometown of Petaluma, California. My hometown remains a growing city 45 minutes north of San Francisco determined…
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Forty-five miles south of Asheville, literally straddling the border between North and South Carolina, is the quaint, historic village of Tryon. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the original trading settlement…
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