Tuesday Morning: Behind the Scenes
My office this morning is looking back to normal, which is rather eerie, given that for the past three weeks it had slowly become more and more crowded with tubs, boxes and signage. With nearly all of it now loaded into a horse trailer with…
Monday Morning: Behind the Scenes
As the days have been ticking down, the pile of boxes and plastic crates brimming with books, name badges, tote bags, easel signs, envelopes, posters, workshop materials and file folders has turned our office, workshop and home into a virtual…
Signs of Spring: Robins, Daffodils and the President
It has been one totally bizarre week.
While our friends in the Northeast were preparing for their early February blizzard, here in North Carolina we rebounded from a two-day ice storm to then endure a flash flood that submerged one of our…
To Thomas Wolfe’s Cabin
In 1929, at the naive age of 29, Thomas Wolfe had his first novel published. Now considered one of the masterworks of American 20th century literature, Look Homeward, Angel was a thinly-veiled autobiography of Wolfe's childhood growing up…
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down…
For those of you who may be growing weary of reading about the Grove Park Inn, I apologize, but with the 26th national Arts and Crafts Conference now just three weeks away and the Grove Park Inn undergoing a major renovation, I hope you understand…
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