Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
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My friend Fatimah is starting a catering business, so I’m helping her to find exquisite dinnerware at auction prices. That won’t be hard because lovely dinnerware come up for auction pretty often. Most of the…
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As long as I go to auctions, I will never stop learning. I’m always finding items I have never ever heard of before and taking them home to research. Many of them have nothing in…
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I was reading an article recently about Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. secretary of state, and her new book “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box.” It talked about how she used her trademark…
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I’m not much of a coffee drinker, but there’s something about having a cup of black coffee (no cream, please) in one of those heavy diner cups. The coffee seems to taste better, stays hot…
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I have a very strong image of me as a child in a green Girl Scout uniform. But I don’t remember any activities I participated in or who my troop leader was or the names…
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When I was growing up with my siblings and cousins, two sandy-haired dogs were always in our yard. I grew up in what was then considered the “country,” outside the town of Macon, Ga., so the dogs and us…
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I have a friend who loves to attend Swann Auction Galleries’ African American art sale in New York where you can spend thousands of dollars for a Charles White or Elizabeth Catlett, or some of…
I’m one of the tons of people who saw the movie “Julia & Julie” in August and then went home to make the signature dish “Boeuf à la Bourguignonne (Beef Stew in Red Wine, with…
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My friend Robert bought himself a motorcycle for Christmas. He takes it out as often as he can, mostly on short trips. But he has hooked up with an ad-hoc group of cyclists who just love to…
