Little Journeys

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…

Having a Drink With Scott

Editor's note: this article has been republished. Original date of publication: June 27th, 2021.   Several years ago I published a column entitled “Having a Drink with Gus,” written after I had spent a few hours in a Manhattan bar…

Getting Excited

  Although I descended from a family of collectors, none were drawn to art pottery, as the closest they came were mass-produced Normal Rockwell and M. I. Hummel “limited edition” figurines. But my mother and grandmother simply collected…

Seminar Reflections

  At one of our early Arts and Crafts Conferences at the Grove Park Inn, I had asked a well-known collector to deliver one of our seven seminars. After a disappointing, lackluster performance, the speaker met me at the back of the room…

A Sticky Problem

  One of the problems with growing older is that we sometimes lose track of when we started our various projects. It’s easy for me to remember that this will be the 35th year for the Arts and Crafts Conference at the historic 1913 Grove…

A Man Who Died For His Art

  Last week I attended a graveside service for a dear friend who recently passed away. It was held at Asheville’s historic Riverside Cemetery, the names of whose inhabitants read like titles in a history of Asheville. Among them is that…

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