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Show EAST AURORA NEW YORK, 1904-191 s minutetocome? L afd Kl elephone ther',andsgned the lecter "Here's heaps of love, Alfce Hubbar fter hisreturnto. meuca,heworkedfor(heHubbardsforznothe two years. Then he wa off once agan to Europe,this time never torehad completed five pleasurabl years wit hich seemed t {m quite suffictent considering his restless nat d retur fo short visits; butafter the tragic deaths of Elbert and Alice Hubbard, h becam somewhatantagonistic.On July 27,1920 f these visits plctely(ulfmed hewas leftwitha burning desre toachfeve othe a i oy ot o s o e o :mfms nof consequence because it fs prol blyhix initfal experfence a anauthor Displayin an amusing easyan fnformal style, the articl S sugpestion forthe local newipaper. The fol lowing passages appeared fn the Chillicothe NEWS-ADVERTISER August 2,1904, three weeksafterarrivingfn East Auroraandare quote intheirentirety THE ROYCROFTER e King Crafters Make Work a Pleasure Because They Ar Amm and Make Beautiful Thi A Seventeen miles west of Buffalo fs a queer little village called Eas Aurora. This s where the Roycrofter cranks and thefr pastor, Elber cranks on the outside. They think allthe rest of the world cranky becausetherestof the worldackstheapprecationof theorigtnal though and the orfgtnal way of dofng thin Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library Universit of Utah, All rights reserved |