antiques — Stories — Public Sale

A Life Well-Lived

From rooms where afternoon light once fell just so,

Where paintings watched the seasons turn

A life unfolded in the gentle hush of chosen things.

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Folktales

The first snow of the year had barely melted when the posters began to appear around town:

FOLKTALES

An Auction of Folk Art, Quilts, Sculpture & Handmade Wonders

January 17

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The Limit of the Marvelous

Ladies and Gentlemen! Yes, ‘tis true, dear friends, “Kar–Mi” (aka Joe Van Victorina, aka Joseph Bryant Hallworth – a Chelsea, Mass. child prodigy who performed as a teen with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show before cobbling together a classic American medicine show featuring snake–charming, fire–eating, fortune–telling) would indeed swallow a loaded gun barrel and, while it was down his throat, shoot a cracker off a man’s head.

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High–end Havoc

Whether, as amateur etymologist, you hold that the word “havoc” comes from: the Middle English signal for soldiers to seize plunder, crier havok –‘to cry havoc’; the Germanic havot – ‘to seize’; or the Latin haber – ‘to possess,’ you are sure to get a mental image of your messy garage or attic.