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(Issue Story)Reading between the Lines
Beneath the Surface
When Hollie was small, with two working parents in a rural community, there were very few convenient childcare options, and when her longtime babysitter said she could not handle another child even on the occasional days off from school, the task fell to her grandfather, a taciturn, weathered ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Have Clock, Will Travel
Beneath the Surface
There is a saying in the antiques business that three is a collection, and that once you get three of anything, you just have to keep going. This must be the case with us and transporting tall clocks. We have collected the habit apparently. This time it started ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pump Up the Volume
Beneath the Surface
Little in the auction world has changed more than the “back room.” Regardless of what it was called, most auction houses used to have either sales or portions of sales where the uncataloged, the odds and ends, ended up.
Auctioneers have lots of euphemisms for this material—cleanout lots, box ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Family Circus
Beneath the Surface
Last year, Andrew was approached about the most effective way to disseminate an enormous collection. The answer was an auction. (Hollie keeps thinking of The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”) This collection has, in many ways, illustrated much ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Minimalism Is Dead! Long Live Maximalism!
Beneath the Surface
We have been besieged for years by messages of minimalism. Simplify your life and throw out all your stuff! Everything that does not bring contentment, peace, and joy on this particular day at this particular moment must go! Never mind if you are having a bad day or ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Metric Side of the Ruler
Beneath the Surface
Bias comes up often in conversation these days, and as is always the case when any word gets thrown around rapidly, the meaning begins to get dented up or to accumulate connotations that do not belong to it. Because it is often used in connection with ideas that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Shop Talk
Beneath the Surface
Humans kind of ruin everything. It is true. We do. Think about your favorite vacation spot 30 years ago! But we do not mean to. We mean to make things better. And, to be fair, it is not just us. Left to their own devices, many living organisms ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)It’s the Little Things
Beneath the Surface
The last few years have recalibrated our lives. They have shifted our sense of community, our work culture, our economy. As “history people,” although we can acknowledge that this wouldn’t necessarily be a time period we would have chosen, it is undeniable that we are in the midst ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Social Dilemma
Beneath the Surface
Our van is about to have 300,000 miles on it, but we have not gotten nearly as much mileage out of it as we have out of Andrew’s thesis. When he first got out of graduate school, as one of the few people to approach Ohio decorative arts ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Defeating the Hoard
Beneath the Surface
What’s on your summer reading list? We wonder who these people are who have additional time to read in the summer. They are not people with yards and gardens and summer camps and 4-H projects! We admit that we are probably not the beach-read target audience. (What? Doesn’t ... (Read More)
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