Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Books, collectibles, and Music
I knew before I walked into the auction house that tons of books would be up for sale. But as I got closer to the books, imagine my surprise when I saw that they were all…
The first thing that caught my eye as I saw the small stack of tattered books on the auction table was the bright yellow color of the book jacket. Then I spotted the red lips…
As I routinely do at auction, I was flipping through a stack of Life magazines when I came across a face that stared pointedly out at me. It was a man whom I recognized for…
Posted in Black history, Books, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
When I first saw the books and their titles in the glass case at the auction house, my first thought was of cameras. The images on the covers, though, were of strange little characters with…
I was at a reading this week by author Isabel Wilkerson on her new book about the Great Migration – that mighty flood of black people who left the South in the early part of…
Posted in Books, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The little gray book was only a handful lying there among some other papers and books in an open box on the auction table. I don’t know why I decided t0 pick that one up…
Posted in Books, and collectibles
The book in the glass case at the auction house was a littler smaller than my open hand, but the title gave it some heft ? Little Blue Book No. 1340. How to Get a…
Posted in Beauty Products, and Books
The three books were in a box of other books under a table at the auction house, their spines upright and pointed towards me. They were dog-eared, as if someone had read them quite often and had barely put them…
Posted in Books, Performers, and theater
The young man playing the Cat in the Hat was tall and spindly, and prowled the stage like, well, a cat. He was here, he was there – filling in the blanks in the story,…
