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Roycroft. / 42.76778°N 78.61778°W / 42.76778; -78.61778. Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters.
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the ...
Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), founder of the Maryland Agricultural College in 1856, the predecessor to UMD. On March 6, 1856, the forerunner of today's University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College. [21]
GNIS feature ID. 0948967. Website. www .east-aurora .ny .us. East Aurora is a village in Erie County, New York, United States, southeast of Buffalo. It lies in the eastern half of the town of Aurora. The village population was 5,998 per the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
Squirt Gun, a 7-year-old American Paint Horse, closes its eyes as it's kissed by resident Vanessa Williams before the start of the Pet Parade during Independence Day celebrations in Bandera, Texas.
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the conditions ...
A joyous season came to a close for the celebrated Purdue and the 12,000 fans at Mackey Arena who watched their Boilermakers compete in their first National Championship since 1969.
Bill Roycroft. James William George Roycroft, OBE [1] (17 March 1915 – 29 May 2011) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. He grew up on a dairy farm and learnt to ride horses there. After serving in the army in World War II, he moved with his family to a soldier's block in western Victoria near Camperdown, where he raised his three ...