We lived in England for three glorious years in the early ’90s. Then the Air Force ordered us back to the Mojave Desert. When we left, you could see my heel marks from Primrose Lane at RAF Cranwell to Heathrow Airport in London. We returned to England last July, and checked to see if my heel marks ...
Christmas All Year Long for the Kinseys with Folk Art Santas
Mae and Guy Kinsey cannot help but think of Christmas all year long. The St. James couple spends hundreds of hours every year carving basswood pieces and painting them to create beautiful wooden, folk art Santas of various shapes and forms. The Kinseys’ living room bookshelves are filled with ...
Christmas Magic is Angelic Nail Polish and a Snaggle-Toothed Kid
You know how it can be this time of year. Run into the store, pick up a bauble or a red ribbon for that shotgun wreath thing that my daughter and I are going to make this week. (I can just picture it, we’ll be sitting there on the floor with hundreds of empty shot shells surrounding us, glue guns in ...
Harvesting Hedge Apples
“Yeah, sure, I know where there are lots of hedge apples,” said my father-in-law, Jake. Then he agreed to take us to find them. We crawled into the back of his old pick-up truck, alongside a recently discarded oven, to ride the bumpy route that took us down a wooded trail, over a couple of creeks, ...
Cathy Warren Turns Junque into Folk Art
If you drive by the old Derby Station on East James Boulevard, in St. James, Mo., you can’t miss it. A big birdhouse sits in front of it on a post surrounded by herbs and perennials. The old gas station is now a flea market busting at the seams with treasures found and created by Cathy Warren, a ...
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