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(Young Collectors)Ode to Joy
The Young Collector
Winter, for many people, is binge weather. There’s no yardwork to be done on Saturday, nowhere to go when it is snowy and dark, so it is the perfect time to settle in and watch enough hours of television that Netflix becomes concerned and asks if you are ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Clear Eyes, Full Hearts
The Young Collector
We talk a lot in the antiques business about the dollars and cents of things, but for many of us and for much of our work, it is often much more emotional work than financial. It is, bluntly, hard, challenging, sometimes even saddening work. Much of our effort ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Measure of Gratitude
The Young Collector
Last month we made our annual trek to Wilmington, Delaware. We hadn’t hauled the kids halfway across the country in a couple of months and thought they might be losing their edge if we waited much longer, so we decided to go there and back in three days. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Imagine That
The Young Collector
In his editorial last month, Clayton Pennington asked the question, and we paraphrase: is Americans’ ignorance regarding our own basic history undermining the antiques marketplace (and possibly Western civilization as well)? This sparked a disagreement at our house (thanks, boss), because Andrew feels fairly strongly that history has ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Wherever You Go
The Young Collector
When we lived in the schoolhouse, it was maddening to lose something. By the end of our time there, the four of us were packed in like sardines, but there were only two small, atypical closets and there was no basement, so when something vanished, it was infuriating. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Confidential
The Young Collector
Is there anyone more obnoxious than a person whose eyes have just been opened? There are no more ardent evangelists than the newly converted. No one is going to nag you about that lingering smoking habit more than the person who stood next to you and smoked for ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Social Skills
The Young Collector
Back in 2013, we wrote a column about social media and the power it has to build communities and audiences (“Just Be Yourself,” September 2013). That column was prompted by the success of Chief David Oliver in Brimfield, Ohio. Oliver, a small-town police chief, became an overnight sensation ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)New World, New Problems
The Young Collector
Meeting new people is hard. It can be hard to figure out what to say, how to get a conversation started, or how to keep a conversation going. There are always those icebreaker routines where you are supposed to describe what you did on vacation or what the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Expert Opinion
The Young Collector
When you are a librarian, everyone wants you to be on their team for Trivial Pursuit. “You know all the answers,” they say. “No,” a fellow librarian once said, “I know how to find all the answers.” That conversation is the intersection of our understanding of the difference between ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Be It Resolved
The Young Collector
By the time you read this, the holidays will be well behind us, and, let’s face it, so will most of those New Year’s resolutions. So since you’ve abandoned those good intentions, let us suggest a few replacement options. Don’t overdo it—pace yourselves! As they do on those ... (Read More)
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