My interest in crafts—especially "folk" or "traditional" crafts—led in part to some essays and articles written while I was pursuing M.A. and Ph.D. graduate studies in folklore, at the Cooperstown Graduate Program and at Indiana University.

I was also, for a time, a board member of KCHEA, (the Kentucky Crafts History and Educational Association), and on my own I developed KCHEA's idea for an online Kentucky crafts encyclopedia into the free resource referenced below...