Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
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When I think of safaris, Ernest Hemingway and his short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” come to mind. Macomber was the less-than-courageous big-game hunter – the antithesis of Hemingway, an image of…
“Did you see the goldfish lamps,” my auction buddy Janet asked me as we stood among the furniture at one of my favorite auction houses. I had not. She pointed to a group of lamps…
Posted in collectibles, furniture, and Home
As soon as I saw the gumball machine with the white globe, I thought it’d look nifty on my windowed front porch. It stood out among the indoor and outdoor furniture set up on the pavement…
Posted in history
Recently, I got an email from a man named Darrell English who had read my blog posts from some months ago about an auction of Nazi paraphernalia. I had written emphatically that I could never…
Posted in Art
I wish I could draw and paint. I wish I could look at a landscape or a face or into my imagination, and let the images flow through my fingers onto a canvas. And people…
Posted in Clothing
My girlfriend eyed the straw hats lying atop each other in an old cardboard file drawer. She lifted the one on top, a lovely hat made of light straw with a forest green velvet band tied…
Posted in African American women, and Art
How I’d love to own a sculpture by artist Elizabeth Catlett. But the pieces that have come up at the auctions I’ve attended in New York have been way way out of my reach. So, I…
I wasn’t sure what to expect before I entered the auction house to see how Robert Stinson Jr. had spent the money that the federal government has accused him of conning from investors. Stinson and…
I didn’t know Hazel Allen, but from the scrapbooks, photo albums and magazines lying on tables at the auction house, I could tell that she saw the value of saving history. My first introduction to…
Over the weekend, I went with a friend to see Robert Redford’s new movie “The Conspirator,” about Mary Surratt, who was tried and convicted of conspiring to kill President Lincoln in 1865. I know the…
