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Fine Woodworking
For articles, please see “Press.” I also write a monthly post for the “Pro’s Corner” blog.
Profiles of woodworkers for Lost Art Press
Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine
Stanley Webb Davies (F&C270, May 2018)
Decorative carving in the Stanley Webb Davies style (F&C270, May 2018)
The Hoosier Cabinet and the making of the modern woman (F&C274, September 2018)
Behind closed doors: the history of the Wooton desk (F&C273, August 2018)
Popular Woodworking
A Woodworker’s Guide to Custom Cabinets (#239, June 2018)
5 Tricky Hinges (April 2018)
8 Common Hinges (February 2018)
American Bungalow
Harris Lebus: Arts and Crafts Style for the Trade (PDF)
Bringing Back Stinesville (PDF)
Miracle on South Dunn Street (PDF)
Old-House Interiors (now merged with Old-House Journal)
Essay: Money Well Spent (PDF)
Essay: On Matters of Taste (PDF)
Essay: Wedded to Place (PDF)
Cherished by Edie (PDF)
Essay: Women and Their [Sp]ouses
Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival
Edgar Miller and the Carl Street Studios
Replica Kitchen for a Tudor House (PDF)
Old-House Journal
Period Collaboration (PDF)
Popular Woodworking
5 Tricky Hinges (PWM#239 June 2018)
Bloom Magazine
The Life and Legacy of T.C. Steele, Indiana’s Foremost Painter
Linda Chapman of Harvest Moon Flower Farm (PDF)
Margaret Weymouth Jackson, the Sage of Spencer, Indiana (PDF)
Rachel Peden Rediscovered (PDF)
The Life and Times of Mary Agnes Conard (PDF)
Eva Kor of Terre Haute (PDF)
Maple Grove Road: Take a Ride Back in Time (PDF)
A Farm Where the Buffalo Roam (PDF)
Preserving Our Past: In Praise of Bloomington Restorations (PDF)
A Green Love Affair (PDF)
Huffington Post
Other writing
Foreword to Indiana University Press edition of Rachel Peden’s The Land, the People
After you read a piece of writing by Nancy Hiller, you notice that you occupy the world a little differently. Your eyes look longer at the eave. Your palm lingers longer on that table. You ask an extra question to the woman rocking on the front porch. This is writing that encourages perception for the sake of knowing where you live–your kitchen, your house, your community–better. From forgotten neighborhoods to a banister’s curve, Hiller takes the time to look, to research, and to convey her subject’s fullness.
She tracks objects from wooded forest to dinette, and while she does she also relates their social, manufacturing, gender, and visual history. Underlying her sentences is a profound ethics, arguing that knowing more about things will encourage us to treat them differently. This is a sort of preaching that comes not from knowing better, but from knowing the daily joy of experiencing more.”
—Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History and Divinity, Yale University
“Y’know, for an author, you’re really okay.”
—Chuck Bickford, Fine Homebuilding
