The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farms

Thank you to Bruce Johnson for featuring our annual Craftsman Farms Banquet in today’s post on his new site, arts and crafts collector.   If you haven’t already been to this wonderful new website, you are missing an outstanding and entertaining resource covering every aspect of the Arts and Crafts lifestyle.

PreservationNJ just ran a poll asking for favorite New Jersey historical destinations, and the results are in!
The people of the Garden State have spoken – at 217 votes (as of midnight last night, when the poll officially closed) the Wildwoods, with outstanding boardwalks, thrilling amusements, and one of the world’s  most intact collections of mid-twentieth [...]

A staged reading at the Grolier Club, New York
Wednesday, 19 November, 6 p.m.

The first American performance of Virginia Woolf’s comedy, Freshwater, will be held on Wednesday November 19th in New York’s Grolier Club. The play, a hilarious send-up of Woolf’s great-aunt, the famed photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, and her friends poet Alfred Tennyson, [...]

Our friend David Rago recently wrote about American Arts & Crafts and five places to see Arts & Crafts collections. He says:
The Arts and Crafts movement had a short lifespan, but its impact on American life has endured — remember that lumpy bowl you made in summer camp? Lasting only from about 1900 until changing [...]