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…
A Day in Cedar Rapids
Yes, I know it doesn’t sound very exciting, but when you're on a quest for information, you go wherever the next lead takes you.
I was headed back to the Midwest to celebrate my parents' 65th wedding anniversary last week and took the opportunity…
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