By Maureen Timm    Blue Ridge dinnerware acquired its name from the misty Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee. This charming, hand painted pottery decorated in a spectrum of vivid colors was one of the nation’s most attractive and original dinnerware lines for over forty years.    It all began in 1917 in the small southern town of Erwin, Tennessee, when the California […]

Incredible! I’m so impressed with Paul Emerson DeStefano. This is so well written and timely. That’s why Thoreau and Emerson are great, their thinking endures. Jon from Denver Beautifully written! Definitely see him as a professional writer in the future. Aka, he’ll be a published doctor!!! Christy from Denver Thanks to Paul, I now have a whole new appreciation for […]

By Sandy Dale    We all can’t wait for things to get “back” to normal, right? By now, some of us can’t remember what “normal” was and some of us are pretty sure we aren’t going “back” (and maybe shouldn’t). Whatever happens, there are a few things we have learned from this tumultuous time. We’ve heard all we need to hear […]

By Robert Reed    In the wide world of sports tennis has been relatively under collected in the past, but it has a winner’s potential in the future. Today tennis “meets all the criteria” of a popular sporting collectible according to author Robert Everitt. Writing in the very comprehensive volume, Racket Sports Collectibles, Everitt notes tennis has the heritage, the players, […]