I remember their brown faces and white uniforms. They stood at the door of the church, likely hot themselves, handing out paper fans to help cool us against the rising heat in the sanctuary. Adults…
Category: Religion
A Gideons Bible in my hotel nightstand
Posted in Books, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, history, Religion, and travel
I was searching the drawers for a notepad to write something when I pulled opened the drawer to the nightstand in the room at the Charlotte, NC, hotel. There, placed neatly and squarely next to the…
The auction house was holding another one of its “special” sales – the second, it seemed, in as many weeks. These are the sales where everything is out of my reach, the merchandise high-rent with…
Readers ask about portable confessional & refrigerator
Posted in Kitchen, Reader questions, and Religion
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
A vampire-killing kit? You’ve got to be kidding
Posted in collectibles, Religion, and Unusual
It was a simple note in an email from my auction friend Rebecca: “Take a look at the auction site of Brunk Auctions, the March 23rd auction. Lot #23. Interesting item for your blog.” Rebecca…
A lovely old tin of Catholic holy cards
Posted in collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Religion
I didn’t think much of it when my auction pal Rebecca mentioned that she’d seen some Catholic holy cards in a box lot at the auction house. I see cards, rosaries, tiny crosses and other…
Kenneth Slaughter & Wings Over Jordan
Posted in Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Music, and Religion
They were in a different CBS studio each Sunday, this group of singers with some of the best voices in spiritual music. But Wings Over Jordan couldn’t just walk through the front door of hotels to…
A black church’s first female minister
Posted in African American women, and Religion
Rev. Ralinda Golback’s heart was so full of praise that it was palpable. You could almost take it in both your hands and hold it, feel it, hear it, wrap yourself in it. She had…
Church pews. That’s what I saw as the words formed in my head when I rounded the corner and came face to face with the long oak benches on the loading dock at the auction…