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The New York Times
May 23, 2008 Friday

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Artisan Life, A Weekend At a Time
BYLINE: By LAURA M. HOLSON
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I will never complain about paying $200 for a handcrafted copper bowl again. That, at least, was the thought running through my head one Sunday morning last month as I found myself pounding a rigid sheet of copper into the silhouette of a delicate flower, using only a makeshift hammer and crude set of nails.

I was attending a copper repousse class at the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, N.Y. There, a century ago, a community of artisans trained in the Arts and Crafts tradition flourished under Elbert Hubbard, a soap salesman turned philosopher-entrepreneur who popularized the era's sophisticated style. On my weekend there were 10 of us, crammed elbow to elbow, around a long table in a 1902 stone blacksmith's cottage that not only served as our workshop, but functions as a gift store, too.

''How ya' doing over here?'' asked my instructor, Frank Glapa, a coppersmith who had driven from his home in Chicago with a trunk full of copper and steel plates, tools and earplugs, all of which we used over the next two days. He studied the mangled surface of a leaf I was molding. ''Don't worry,'' he said, rounding out the edges with a flat-edged nail. ''We can fix that.''

I heard that a lot over the weekend. By Sunday my fingers and shoulders were sore from long hours spent tapping metal against metal. I was literally suffering for my art. But at the same time, it was oddly exhilarating. The Arts and Crafts movement, popular at the turn of the 20th century, was a backlash against modern industrialization; a renewed respect for an artisan's skill and handiwork. Now I too could experience what it was like to be a craftsman, even if it required painkillers.

East Aurora, a village 20 minutes from downtown Buffalo, seeks to recapture the spirit of the Roycroft heyday and preserve its reformist-era roots. Its centerpiece is the Roycroft Campus, now a nonprofit corporation, which offers classes and tours to visitors interested in print- and jewelry-making, painting and metalwork. In what may be a reaction to today's Crate & Barrel-Pottery Barn ethos, classes are sold out months in advance as novice artisans and visitors pay as much as $250 to study with a Roycroft artisan.

I WOULD not have known about East Aurora if not for a bookseller in Southern California who introduced me to nearly century-old copies of The Philistine, a self-help-style magazine published by Hubbard, who started the Roycroft Press in the mid-1890s. He modeled the Roycroft enterprise after William Morris's Kelmscott Press. Like his contemporary, Gustav Stickley, Hubbard had his artisans bound books and magazines and design Mission-Oak-style furniture. They also made leather goods and assorted copper crafts.

To get a sense of the history of the Roycrofters, I decided to stay at the Roycroft Inn, a sprawling paean to Arts and Crafts architecture restored in 1995. A century earlier, Hubbard set up his original print shop in what is now the hotel's lounge. By New York standards the inn is a bargain, with three-room suites appointed with Stickley furniture and a bathtub with jets for $155 a night. I stayed in Room 209 but next time will ask for a room on the top floor, as the original 1905 wooden plank floors groaned with the steps of heavy-footed travelers above me.

After I checked in, I met Tom Alcamo, a volunteer guide, who took me on a tour, pointing out the original, expertly preserved Viennese tulip windows designed in 1909 by the artist Dard Hunter, as well as faithful reproductions of Hunter's lime green and lavender round glass fixtures, which hung from the rafters on copper chains.

Hubbard was born in 1856 and moved to Buffalo in 1875 to work for the Larkin Soap Company, where he became a successful advertising executive with a knack for P. T. Barnum-style promotion. (He is related, through adoption, to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.) Hubbard was a colorful figure with a cultlike appeal, something like the televangelist Joel Osteen, only with a furniture business on the side. He was renowned for an essay he wrote in 1899 called ''A Message to Garcia,'' which extolled the virtues of self-reliance and ''can do'' optimism. And on Sunday nights, Roycrofters gathered on hard wooden benches in the hotel's now well-preserved salon, where Hubbard preached principles of hard work, prosperity and clean living.

He inscribed his motivational messages everywhere on the campus; a carving on one of the hotel's thick oak doors reads, ''The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.''

But at his core Hubbard was a capitalist, and most of the profits he kept for himself. Mr. Alcamo spared none of the soap-opera-worthy details of Hubbard's personal life. Hubbard had an affair with Alice Moore, a young teacher and suffragist who for a time lived with him and his first wife, Bertha, in their East Aurora house. Alice moved to a home near Boston, pregnant with Hubbard's daughter, Miriam (her condition was misreported in 1894 as ''nervous prostration''), and, after his scandalous divorce, eventually became the second Mrs. Hubbard.

Needless to say, the Roycrofters were shocked to find their spiritual and business leader was a philanderer. Still, the community survived the crisis until 1915, when Hubbard and Alice drowned on the Lusitania after it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.

Many of the sites to see in Hubbard's East Aurora are within walking distance of the inn. The Copper Shop Gallery, the cottage where I took my class, is operated by the Roycroft Campus Corporation, which is raising funds to refurbish original Roycroft buildings, including the copper shop and the power house. Artists given Roycrofter status, like my teacher, Mr. Glapa, are allowed to use the Roycroft Renaissance stamp, a variation of the original, trademarked in 1906 by Hubbard, which identified all original handiwork.

A few blocks away from the campus is the Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum, open June through October on Wednesdays and weekends from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. When I went it was closed, but tourists can easily arrange for private tours. A classmate said he had spent three hours with an expert guide who offered an in-depth historical perspective on everything from the built-in sideboard china cabinet to the rare maple beds made for the inn.

But spending so much time indoors, it is easy to miss the relaxed charm of the area's lush green countryside and stately horse farms. One afternoon I took a drive along Porterville Road to Marilla, a hamlet about 15 minutes away that hasn't changed much since Hubbard's day. I stopped at the Marilla Country Store, built in 1851, which sells an assortment of hardware and knickknacks, as well as hard-to-find candy favorites like Neapolitan coconut bars and not-so-politically-correct candy cigarettes.

East Aurora, though, is not known for its fine cuisine. I had dinner Friday night at the Roycroft Inn, and some of my choices were beef tenderloin with a dollop of Gorgonzola, chicken with Asiago, and pork topped with Cheddar. I asked my waiter what was up with all the cheese, but got a puzzled look as if he hadn't noticed. So I ordered the steak special -- no cheese, but with a pile of bacon and onions on top instead.

Taste is a charming college-town-style cafe that serves healthy-size lattes, sandwiches and desserts and where boyish crooners with acoustic guitars play most weekend nights. A short drive from downtown is the Bar Bill Tavern, a not quite divey bar where locals go for chicken wings and ''beef on weck'' sandwiches, a regional specialty of roast beef and horseradish sauce on a salted caraway-seed roll.

WHILE I don't see myself becoming a budding Roycroft artisan pounding out copper daisies for a living, Ihave to admit I'd go back for the shopping. I bought two hand-hewn oak picture frames at Ashwood Artisans, an East Aurora gallery, for $95 each that would have cost me twice as much in New York. And I went home with a beveled mirror of exceptional quality designed by a Roycroft master artisan, Howard Lehning.

If you can't make the trip to East Aurora, the Roycrofters-at-Large-Association have their own Web site, www.ralaweb.com. Some of their work is sold online at the Copper Shop Gallery Web site. Which leads me to my own inspiration that I'm sure Hubbard would approve of:

If you can't make art, buy it from someone who can.

VISITOR INFORMATION

East Aurora, N.Y., is about 20 miles from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, which is served by major airlines and car rental agencies.

The Roycroft Inn (40 South Grove Street; 716-652-5552; www.roycroftinn.com) has 28 rooms and suites starting at $130 a night.

The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum (363 Oakwood Avenue; 716-652-4735; www.roycrofter.com/museum.htm) is open June through October on Wednesdays and weekends from 1 to 4 p.m. Private tours can be arranged at other times.

The Copper Shop Gallery on the Roycroft Campus is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and sells stained glass, furniture, pottery and copperware created by Roycroft artisans.

Ashwood Artisans (726 Main Street; 716-652-7333), which is not affiliated with Roycroft, sells jewelry, pottery, sculpture and photography.

The Marilla Country Store (1673 Two Rod Road, Marilla; 716-655-1031; www.marillacountrystore.com) is in the town of Marilla, about eight miles northeast of East Aurora.

At Taste (634 Main Street, East Aurora; 716-655-1874), a Hubbard-in-the-Cupboard chicken salad costs $7.95.

The Bar Bill Tavern (185 Main Street, East Aurora; 716-652-7959) sells Buffalo chicken wings for $7.90 and ''beef on weck'' sandwiches for $6.
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The New York Times
May 23, 2008 Friday

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.

The 32nd edition of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., opens amid talk that it will get back together with its estranged parent, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy.

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Fitting In After Iraq

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VIDEO: Working the Gate

At Fleet Week

The sailors and marines on shore leave during Fleet Week represent a business opportunity for bar owners and entrepreneurs on the West Side.

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The Colombian seaport of Cartagena is pulsating like a salsa party and drawing well-heeled Latin Americans and Europeans to its restored colonial mansions, fusion restaurants, Old World-style plazas and cobblestone alleyways.

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The New York Times
May 23, 2008 Friday

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Good Books For Children Of New York
BYLINE: By TINA KELLEY
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Shortly after last week's unveiling of the portrait of Eloise, the endearing denizen of the Plaza Hotel, we started thinking about other children's books set in New York City, and how they caught our imaginations early on. They helped convince us, back when we were truly the center of the universe, that New York might actually share that honor.

Not that we shared much back then.

So who else would know of children's books spawned by the city but the coordinator of children's services for the New York Public Library, Margaret Tice?

''A new classic is 'Knuffle Bunny Too,' by Mo Willems, who lives in Brooklyn,'' she said. ''We think of all his books as taking place in New York City.''

Mordicai Gerstein's ''The Man who Walked Between the Towers'' won a Caldecott Medal, and a few noteworthy books came out of 9/11, she said: ''New York's Bravest,'' by Mary Pope Osborne, a picture book about firefighters, and ''Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey,'' by Maira Kalman.

Ms. Tice said ''Olivia,'' the irrepressible pig in Ian Falconer's books, is a New Yorker. How does she know, we asked, unaware of any geographical references in her red and black chronicles.

''She's very bold, and brassy, and she wants to have her own way,'' she explained.

Then there's ''The Tale of Pale Male,'' by Jeanette Winter, chronicling Fifth Avenue's favorite red-tailed hawk.

Another careful student of the children's shelves in the area codes 212 and 718 is Leonard S. Marcus, who wrote ''Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature,'' just out from Houghton Mifflin.

He counts among his favorites ''Harbor,'' by Donald Crews, heavy on pictures, light on words, which gives entrancing views of New York Harbor from Brooklyn. ''It's a chance for very small children to see pictures of things that go,'' Mr. Marcus said, adding that he likes it in part because there are no people shown on the boats, allowing 3- and 4-year-olds to imagine themselves on board.

For ages 5 to 9, ''The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins,'' a true story about a 19th-century English paleontologist and hunter who made life-size models of dinosaurs that he brought here.

From Yorkville, there's ''Harriet the Spy.'' ''It was really a shocking book when it was published in 1964, about a girl in sweatshirt and sneakers, boyish, angry, moody, certainly very unsocialized and unsociable,'' Mr. Marcus said. ''She was the James Dean of 11-year-olds.'' Her parents sent her to a therapist and drank cocktails in the afternoon, he noted.

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The New York Times
May 22, 2008 Thursday

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Small Businesses Feel Sting Of Inflation
BYLINE: By MICKEY MEECE
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From 7 a.m., when Mark Roesner arrives at Copley Feed and Supply in Ohio and turns on the lights, until a little after 6 p.m., when his wife, Nancy Roesner, turns them off, the Roesners are reminded of the costs of inflation in ways big and small.

The electricity for the lights at the 3,200-square-foot store costs more than it did a year ago. So does the fuel for deliveries. Mr. Roesner says he has been spending more of his time lately trying to figure out the most efficient delivery routes. Then, there are the ever-rising costs for horse and bird feed, shelled corn and fertilizer. Nancy Roesner says she has been scouring the invoices each day, and then figuring out how much to raise prices to keep her profit margins.

''I don't see an end in sight,'' she said, not with prices so high -- and heading higher -- on fertilizer and seed. ''I don't see how prices can go down.''

Inflation has sunk its teeth into small businesses this year. The number of owners citing inflation as their No. 1 concern on the National Federation of Independent Businesses monthly economic index in April was at its highest level since 1982. One in five owners is raising prices, according to William C. Dunkelberg, the trade group's chief economist.

''What's happening is every time people open the back door to receive supplies, prices are higher,'' Mr. Dunkelberg said. ''Right now they are trying to pass it on to their customers.'' In April, 35 percent of owners said they raised prices, he added.

The Roesners say they have had no choice but to adjust. In one year, Mrs. Roesner said, the price of a 50-pound bag of fertilizer more than doubled to $19.99, from $7.89; a bale of hay rose to $6.29, from $4.29, and a 50-pound bag of horse feed to $10.49, from $6.99.

Officially, the government is indicating that inflation is in check, taking into account seasonal variations. On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that wholesale prices climbed just 0.2 percent in April. The core rate, though, which excludes food and energy, had its largest year-over-year jump since 1991.

And last week, the government reported that consumer prices inched up in April, suggesting cooling inflation.

But on Main Street and in households across America -- where rapidly rising fuel and food prices are not excluded -- the picture is not so rosy. Gasoline prices are now up to about $3.80 a gallon. The cost of diesel fuel, which powers many small business vehicles, set a record yet again on Wednesday, about $4.56 a gallon, up nearly 64 percent from a year ago. And food prices rose at a 0.9 percent rate in April, the biggest one-month jump since 1990.

''The Federal Reserve in its minutes says it is counting on the recession to manage inflation,'' Mr. Dunkelberg wrote in his summary. ''If we are in a recession, it is not getting the job done.''

Economists, including Mr. Dunkelberg and Raymond Keating of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, have tracked an increase in prices over the last couple of years, though Mr. Keating said it was ''not the raging inflation we had in the 1970s.''

To be sure, not every business is passing along the pain, Mr. Keating said, but certainly more owners are trying to do it this year if the competition allows it. That trend has been reflected in the monthly surveys of the National Federation of Independent Businesses this year.

Zachary Hoffman, an owner of Wiley Office Furniture in Springfield, Ill., said he, too, had been passing ''more and more manufacturers' price increases on to our customers.''

Suppliers, especially those shipping steel components like shelves, desks and files, used to raise prices in line with the consumer price index, Mr. Hoffman said. Now it is twice that rate, he said.

Beyond the cost of goods, Wiley Office Furniture is grappling with significant operating expenses. ''Our fuel bill has more than doubled in the space of a year,'' he said. The company's delivery trucks run on diesel and only get about seven miles to the gallon, and the cost to service those vehicles has also gone up.

The company's utility bill has skyrocketed, so much that Wiley replaced all of its lights in its showroom with more efficient fluorescent lights, Mr. Hoffman said, which are turned down to save energy. And it is now aggressively recycling all cardboard boxes to save on waste removal.

This year for the first time, he said, the company had to ask its 30 full-time employees to pay a share of their health insurance.

More customers are coming in to pick up furniture, he said, because the company had had to raise its delivery charges. Even so, on long hauls, delivery is a losing proposition for Wiley. Now it is grouping those long-distance deliveries by ZIP code to become more efficient. That takes longer, but customers are willing to wait to pay less, Mr. Hoffman said.

Copley Feed, too, is altering deliveries, scaling back to twice a week from three times. It will deliver only once a week if necessary, Mrs. Roesner said.

So far, neither Wiley nor Copley has had to consider layoffs, but that could change.

''We have always been very frugal,'' Mrs. Roesner said. ''We are making sure that lights are off in areas we are not in. Sometimes the guys tend to leave a room and leave the lights on, so we women get on them about it. If we are slow then I put it up to the employees to pick who wants off early.''

Mrs. Roesner said she was not sure if she would have to resort to layoffs if the price of gasoline climbed to $5 a gallon. Her customers, she suspects, will be cutting back on owning pets since that can be seen as more of a luxury than a necessity. Lawn and garden customers might forgo splurging this season.

Already, some pleasure-horse owners are putting their horses out to pasture, which means those customers are not buying her feed. ''We've seen a recession before,'' Mrs. Roesner said, recalling her nearly 40 years in the business, ''but not to this extent.''