Touchstone Center for Crafts, near Farmington in the Laurel Highlands about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, PA, was founded in 1972 as the Pioneer Crafts Council. Originally, its focus was to preserve mountain crafts but it has since become a full-fledged crafts school, with classes in painting, ceramics, blacksmithing, glass-blowing, wood sculpture, stone working, [...]
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Kentuck Knob
Kentuck Knob was one of the last houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built. It was built for I.N. and Bernardine Hagan, the owners of an ice cream company in Uniontown, PA. They had seen Fallingwater, built for Edgar Kaufmann, and fell in love with Lloyd’s approach to architecture. Built in 1956, the Hagans lived there [...]