During the summer months of 1932 & '33, Grant Wood ("American Gothic") hosted an art school/colony in Stone City, Iowa. Students and faculty alike lived in converted ice wagons very much like the ...

I "bought" a simple, beautiful and old 10' bench by making a donation toward the renovation of the old Czech meeting hall from whence it came ... and appeased my husband by promising we'd never scr...

Have you ever actually smelled insulin? Once you drop and shatter the glass bottle on the kitchen floor, you realize how very well the syringe and rubber stopper protect you from otherwise having ...

We applied Tempaper to the walls of our guest bathroom, right over the 80's flame-stitch wallpaper and with great success. Couldn't have been easier. And it's exactly like really nice contact pap...

I'll always remember hearing the news of her death on NPR ... the next day, my friend of many years said she was saddened by the loss of her favorite author ... and that was when we discovered we h...

Ah! But witness this: The Anderson House, a hotel in Wabasha, MN, "rents" happy (I can attest to this) cats to their guests. My understanding is that the tradition started when a patron (staying ...

Before you make the final decision to paint: this chair is one segment of a Chadwick sectional, produced by Herman Miller for a couple years in the very early 70's. Don Chadwick was/is also the de...