Homework assignment from Teacher_Mike

Teacher_Mike · March 8, 2006

All I can offer is a truly a little more.

The auction was in August, and it was an estate sale held on site at the farm. This auction was between Carlisle (any car show people out there?) and Newville, on a nice, curvy PA country road that hadn't (at that point,) yet been found by the devlopers...but check tomorrow, cause they're sprouting a lot more than corn in the old fields around here these days

. This was not one of the high faluttin' Pennsylvania "farm" auctions with 5 generations of period antiques - we have those too in this area. This was, by my estimate, a relatively recently working farm, probably only a few dozen acres, barn on one side of the road, older pieced-together and kinda sorta but not really remodeled farmhouse on the other.

The LARD CAN in mention was in a row of box lots in the back yard...the usual stuff - heaps of canning jars, mismatched chipped and cracked plates and such, half-empty bottles of cleaning supplies, and so on and so forth. I happen to like diggin through that "junk" for a treasure or two...books, local paper goods, or just something that catches my eye. I did not, however, open the lard can. If the auctioneer had not opened it and called out the contents, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

And the rest is in the first post in this thread. I only know it was the estate of Hazel Myers from the auction listing - I have no knowledge of or connection to the family, so I can't really follow up any more.

I've seen some, umm...interesting names mentioned so far. It sure is tempting to start throwing them around (Lard Can Lemon?) but it's way premature (Box Lot Blond?) to start talking about names, don't you think? (Hazel's High Bidder? Hmmm.)

March 8, 2006	#11
Teacher_Mike Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Central PA Posts: 68	All I can offer is a truly a little more. The auction was in August, and it was an estate sale held on site at the farm. This auction was between Carlisle (any car show people out there?) and Newville, on a nice, curvy PA country road that hadn't (at that point,) yet been found by the devlopers...but check tomorrow, cause they're sprouting a lot more than corn in the old fields around here these days . This was not one of the high faluttin' Pennsylvania "farm" auctions with 5 generations of period antiques - we have those too in this area. This was, by my estimate, a relatively recently working farm, probably only a few dozen acres, barn on one side of the road, older pieced-together and kinda sorta but not really remodeled farmhouse on the other. The LARD CAN in mention was in a row of box lots in the back yard...the usual stuff - heaps of canning jars, mismatched chipped and cracked plates and such, half-empty bottles of cleaning supplies, and so on and so forth. I happen to like diggin through that "junk" for a treasure or two...books, local paper goods, or just something that catches my eye. I did not, however, open the lard can. If the auctioneer had not opened it and called out the contents, we wouldn't be having this conversation. And the rest is in the first post in this thread. I only know it was the estate of Hazel Myers from the auction listing - I have no knowledge of or connection to the family, so I can't really follow up any more. I've seen some, umm...interesting names mentioned so far. It sure is tempting to start throwing them around (Lard Can Lemon?) but it's way premature (Box Lot Blond?) to start talking about names, don't you think? (Hazel's High Bidder? Hmmm.)