You know how it can be this time of year. Run into the store, pick up a bauble or a red ribbon for that shotgun wreath thing that my daughter and I are going to make this week. (I can just picture it, we’ll be sitting there on the floor with hundreds of empty shot shells surrounding us, glue guns in ...
Harvesting Hedge Apples
“Yeah, sure, I know where there are lots of hedge apples,” said my father-in-law, Jake. Then he agreed to take us to find them. We crawled into the back of his old pick-up truck, alongside a recently discarded oven, to ride the bumpy route that took us down a wooded trail, over a couple of creeks, ...
Cathy Warren Turns Junque into Folk Art
If you drive by the old Derby Station on East James Boulevard, in St. James, Mo., you can’t miss it. A big birdhouse sits in front of it on a post surrounded by herbs and perennials. The old gas station is now a flea market busting at the seams with treasures found and created by Cathy Warren, a ...
Learning the Art of Divining
Last year a guy from St. James named Dennis Wilson told me that his father, Ira Wilson, could find graves with a divining rod. When I asked Ira Wilson about this, he admitted that even though he was at first skeptical about the practice of divining, or as some folks call it—dowsing, he is now a ...
A Visit to the Rolla Antique Mall
It's always an education to visit an antiques shop with my mom. On this special day, I not only went to the Rolla Antique Mall with my mom, but also my mother-in-law tagged along. Here's the story. “So, the wringer could be used one direction and then the other?” I asked. “Yes,” said my mother, “And ...
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