Contemporary mosaic artists and long-dead coal miners telling stories together on the ruins of an abandoned Pennsylvania coal operation
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A Tornado and a New Podcast Episode
The Fayette County Tornado
June 6, 2026. Late afternoon.
An hour after I hit stop on the podcast with Maria Jose, I was sitting on the studio porch, eating a plank of fried trout caught by the kids at the annual community fishing day a...
Cat, Coal, Cabin
Good morning dear reader,
Today will be the slightest brush of a hello and a few simple announcements. Robert and I are off to spend a day of cabin work over the hill.
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We Made a Mosaic that Changed The Ruins Tour
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For years I have been reaching for ways to fine-tune the experience of hearing the stories of The Ruins while you are there in person. Our tour groans with the weig...
From the Youghiogheny to Key Largo
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The Stoney’s Beer You Are Here by Blair Barthels
Since launching The You Are Here Project, my new favorite thing has become discovering their mosaics out in the wild.
A man who once worked at Stoney’s...
The Wiggle and the Wobble
I sat in the audience years ago as Jo Braun, one of my favorite artists, introduced a new term that changed how I understood mosaic. She repeated the word wiggle, explaining that this was how a certain kind of mosaicist is set apart from ot...
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