The Lady in Room 545
For each of the past 27 years there has been one guest at the Grove Park Inn Arts and Crafts Conference whom I have never been able to please.
She doesn’t attend any of the seminars, skips all of the Small Group Discussions, glides unseen…
Post Conference Musings – and a Question
I normally have my weekly Monday column posted by 6:00am, but it was after midnight last night when we closed the door on the last exhibitor's truck, turning the Grand Ballroom back over to the Grove Park Inn's staff who by tonight will have…
Sunday Morning: Conference Week
And then it was over -- or nearly so.
For twelve months most of my thoughts, my plans, my worries, and my concerns were focused on reaching this day.
Would the weather cooperate?
Would the people come?
Would the exhibitors bring their…
Saturday Morning: Conference Week
It’s a corny line, but one that I could not help but think about yesterday: if you build it, they will come.
One hundred and one years ago E. W. Grove built a hotel overlooking Asheville, filled it with Arts and Crafts furniture, and gave…
Friday Morning: Conference Week
Yesterday was our day of biggest change.
We started the morning with an empty Grand Ballroom and surrounding meeting rooms, then precisely at eight o'clock in the morning the madness began. More than one hundred exhibitors in trucks, vans,…
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