Little Journeys

Rookwood Pottery

  After spending three hours inside the archives of the Cincinnati Art Museum, tracking the footprints of Asheville’s Eleanor Vance, who in the 1890s learned the craft and the art of woodcarving from the city’s Benn Pitman and William…

Dueling Divas

  Traveling from North Carolina to Illinois recently gave me the opportunity to spend a couple of hours in the Cincinnati Art Museum, where I immediately headed to the permanent display of Rookwood Pottery. During the latter years of…

Taking a Day Trip

Editor's note: This article has been republished. Original date of publication: February 28th, 2018.   I moved to Asheville back in 1988, long before it had become famous for its funky shops, artisan galleries, vibrant downtown, panoramic…

Fiction or Non-Fiction?

  In 1978, I left a secure job as a high school English teacher, determined to make it as a professional writer. I cashed in my meager state retirement account to tide me over until I wrote my first best-selling novel, but a year later…

Early Reflections On an Arts and Crafts “Retirement”

  Living in what may later be labeled “The Era of Early Retirements,” many of us are watching with a combination of amazement, wonder, and puzzlement -- tinged with a touch of guilt – to discover what it actually means to now be…

Rock versus Wood

  As do-it-yourself Arts and Crafts landscapers, we all have to make a choice:  rock or wood? Last summer, I watched as a neighbor of ours struggled to install several eight-foot long 4” x 4” landscape timbers on a steep bank which…

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