Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Home, and Personal items
Several of the auction-house staff had warned us in hushed conversations that it was a hoarder’s house. They could barely get through the door or walk through the house to prepare it for an estate…
Posted in Music
When the auctioneer pulled the instrument from its perch in the corner, a single image seemed to come to mind for all of us auction-goers: A street musician on a corner playing his heart out on…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Folklore, and Gardening
I grew up on a farm in a rural area just outside Macon, GA, where most of the water for cooking and drinking came from a well. My grandfather had erected a faucet near the backyard…
“Do you like them?” the auction-goer asked me as we stood in front of a table at the auction house. He had seen me rifle through a box and spread out about a dozen envelopes…
I remember this, the female auction-goer said with surprised excitement as she spotted a vintage brown mechanical horse near the front of a room at the auction house. I was standing near it, alone, eyeing…
Posted in Art
I had almost breezed past the print when its fiery colors forced me into a double-take. The splashes of reds and a bold spot of yellow popped against the black background and just about willed…
Posted in Books
I got the email from Donna after she’d tried to find a Nicodemus book on her own. She’d been looking for a book about the little boy and his shoes, she wrote, but couldn’t seem…
I don’t know much about hockey or my city’s team the Philadelphia Flyers. But when I saw two long rows of Canada Dry soda cans with the team’s winged symbol on a shelf at the…
I remember 20 years ago, Tyler Perry said, when there were only 30 people in the audience. On this day on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia, he could see a lot more than 30 just…
When I saw the ink outline of two musicians on the auction website, I immediately looked for a signature on the drawing. It was signed “David Stone Martin,” and somewhere deep in my mind, I…
