Little Journeys

A One Hundred Year Journey

It began in East Aurora, New York, in the Roycroft Copper shop, where in 1913 foreman Victor Toothaker designed the hammered copper lighting fixtures for the Grove Park Inn being constructed on Sunset Mountain overlooking Asheville, North…

Tracking Down a Tragic Couple

I knew where it was at, I thought, but after nearly an hour driving around Rockville, Maryland, I wasn't sure I was ever going to find it. But I wasn't going to quit. Just as I had read, it was totally surrounded and nearly obscured by gleaming,…

Twilight Memories of the Roycroft Campus

I am writing this week's column from the Robert Browning room on the third floor of the historic Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, New York. It is near the end of what has been a beautiful June day: clear blue skies, lush maple trees shading the…

Statues, Plaques and Trash Cans

After leaving East Aurora two weeks ago, I drove east for a couple of hours until I reached Syracuse, a city best known to Arts and Crafts devotees as the birthplace of Craftsman furniture. It was in Syracuse in 1901 that Gustav Stickley first…

A Fawn’s Little Journey

Five minutes after Leigh Ann and I had lifted this little fawn out of Lake Lure and away from the jaws of a hungry muskrat, we knew he couldn't stay with us for very long (Go to "Archives" below for Part I of this tale.). After spending two…

Nursing a Two-Day Old Baby

It was not how I had intended to spend my weekend. Not that I have ever intentionally modeled my life after theirs, but I have known for many years that when Elbert Hubbard needed to relax, he escaped to a small cabin his son Burt had built…

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