Out of the darkness come two dirty faced young women. The day had been in the 80’s or low 90’s but the intensity of the sun made it hotter than the hubs of hell. We are encamped in Southern Colorado headed home from a distant Art and Craft Fair. We’ve only been on the road …

Jimmy Thomas-As remembered by Bill Keitel-Pandora’s Box 1966-1969? I had the good fortune to know Jimmy Thomas and his family because I played in a rock and roll band with his son Johnny. We played together in our junior high and high school days. We were a garage band and what set us apart from …

THE DEPTH OF HUMANITY IN THREE SMALL WORDS Often times we find ourselves in the far west, dusty, dirty, hard bitten towns where oil extraction seems far more important than education. We find ourselves amongst and befriended by every manner and persuasion of society. Since we are craftspersons traveling on the road we count them …

The Cicada’s buzz and whir in the trees and air, The Ash trees are slowly turning yellow, the seagulls lazily circle in rafts above me as they wend their way southward. The occasional call from one of the birds can be heard on earth…… a thousand feet below. At lower elevations the Monarchs do the …

The Streets of London I am obsessed with all things London. My interest began with the Women Warrior Boudicea, she looms large in my imagination. She was responsible for forestalling Roman advance into Londinium and the British Isles in and around 64 a.d. She burned it to the ground. Halting the Roman advance for some …

It was early summer or late spring the purple martins had fully fledged and were testing their skills on the windward shore of Lake Okabena on Sailboard Beach. Being new to the air they would flutter off the freshening breeze that was building on the shoreline. They were catching the breeze that mounted above tree …

At the Buffalo Billfold Company it is our confidence in the Craftsman way of life, command over materials, tools and processes that keep alive the spirit of American Cottage industry. At an early age I left the Univ. of S.D. and sought an apprenticeship as a shoe repairman, my specialty was filling orthopedic prescriptions for …

At an early age I was introduced to birding, it was a family adventure. On the prairies in the deep south of Minnesota I remember the excitement of seeing and identifying my first and only Marbled Godwit with my cousin. We were the only ones in Rock County to identify this amazing and elusive bird. …

We are celebrating our 60th day in London. Over the past decade we have returned to this amazing city, it calls to me. Having read the 1854 ? exhaustive treatise called Mayhew’s London by Henry Mayhew makes London the place for me. I go there to prove to myself that I love big cities. It …

I grew up in a small town in South Western Minnesota. I knew the out-of-doors, I knew the bounty of crops, birds, rivers, streams, beaver, muskrat, snapping turtles, river bottoms and sand pits. Throughout those years I utilized the spring water that flowed out of the earth like a gift from God. It was from …