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'Tis the Season for the Roycroft Festival

RALA artisan wares, food and holiday music will fill the East Aurora Middle School on Saturday and Sunday, December 3 & 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The school is at 430 Main Street, in East Aurora, just across the street from the Roycroft Campus. Admission is $1 per person. Remember to stop by the Copper Shop on the Campus too, where Kate, Bonnie and Meg have decorated the gallery and are all ready with plenty of holiday gift ideas for you. 

- Sue

Monday Mottos

A lazy man is no more use than a dead one and takes up more room.

-   Elbert Hubbard

 

From One Hundred & One Epigrams, According to Elbert Hubbard, published by Roycroft Campus Press, East Aurora, NY. For sale at the Roycroft Copper Shop.

Remember to Fletcherize this Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving I will once again be enjoying my dinner at the Roycroft Inn. I love seeing all the families and generations coming together in such a cozy, welcoming place, over delicious food.

 

Since I will be at the Roycroft, the wooden placard overhead in the dining room will remind me to fletcherize, but those of you dining elsewhere, please remember to practice what Dr. Horace Fletcher preached: chew your food well!

 

Have a lovely Thanksgiving!

 

- Sue 

Monday Mottos

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

-   Elbert Hubbard

 

From One Hundred & One Epigrams, According to Elbert Hubbard, published by Roycroft Campus Press, East Aurora, NY. For sale at the Roycroft Copper Shop.

 

Final Days of Original Roycroft, Bids Announced

Elbert Hubbard II, or Bert as he was known, ran the Roycroft enterprises after his father died in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Over the years, decorative styles had changed from Arts & Crafts to Art Deco, and there was more competition in periodicals and publishing. Bert wasn’t the chameleon his father was. He couldn’t adapt to the changes in the way his father probably could have if he was still running the business. Below is a letter (March 1939) announcing bids for property once the decision was made to close the Roycroft.

- Sue

Monday Mottos

Do not take life too seriously - you will never get out of it alive.

-   Elbert Hubbard

 

From One Hundred & One Epigrams, According to Elbert Hubbard, published by Roycroft Campus Press, East Aurora, NY. For sale at the Roycroft Copper Shop.

Get the World to Make a Path to Your Door

Advertising Advice from an Early Practitioner

 

As we all know, Elbert believed in promotion and publicity. I have found one of his best expressions of this belief appeared in the June 1912 “Philistine.” He wrote,“The world will never make a path to your door unless you advertise. It may also be well to have an automobile meet all trains and a free lunch served on the front porch.”

 

Now that the Preservation Conference has departed Buffalo, the city and all the organizatons that participated need to heed Elbert’s sage advice. We have much to offer in WNY and want the world to make a path to our door!

 

- Sue

Monday Mottos

You are what you think, and not what you think you are.

-   Elbert Hubbard

 

From One Hundred & One Epigrams, According to Elbert Hubbard, published by Roycroft Campus Press, East Aurora, NY. For sale at the Roycroft Copper Shop.