When Jane and I married in 1974, we learned early on that we loved the traditional music, arts, and crafts of the Appalachians. One of our favorite shops to browse in was The Cave House in Abingdon, VA. They sold locally produced items by artisans and craftspeople who followed traditional techniques, while also putting their interpretation on the objects they created. There was everything from batiks, musical instruments, and furniture, to carvings, paintings on barn wood, and more. The first things that caught our eye at the Cave House were baskets made from white oak splints by a woman everyone called “Miss Mary.”