Little Journeys

From Father to Son, and Back Again

If you have read much of what I have written about the Arts and Crafts movement, you may know that one of my special interests is the hand-hammered silver of William Waldo Dodge, who worked in Asheville from 1924 until the advent of World…

Motel Room Mischief, Arts and Crafts Style

I am writing this week's column from a hotel room in Salt Lake City, where I taped a television show Wednesday morning before appearing at the national SNAP! conference for do-it-yourself bloggers. In my other, non-Arts and Crafts life (and…

Two Days, 15 Antique Malls, 754 Booths, One Museum

Observations on an Antiquing Trip Across North Carolina: After having encountered nearly every airline delay possible, I now have a rule: if I can drive to my destination in fewer than five hours, I give up the one-ounce bag of stale peanuts,…

A Woman of Letters

She was the last of the great letter writers. Violet Hickok, better known to us simply as Grandma Hickok, lived her entire life on the Illinois prairie, where she and my grandfather (pictured) started farming during the Great Depression,…

A Prairie Artist in a Prairie Town

It was a fitting location for a fitting tribute. In the final four years of a career that would be cut short at the age of 51 by pancreatic cancer, Midwestern artist Grant Wood turned his attention away from his rich, colorful oil paintings…

A Wash Out

Not every well-planned journey turns out like we had hoped. On paper it played out perfectly. Get up early on Saturday morning, catch a flight that would drop me in Baltimore at noon, stop by the studio to check on the props I had shipped…

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