Comments on: Michelle’s Antiquing Road Trip: Touring Texas and Oklahoma http://www.worthpoint.com/article/michelles-antiquing-road-trip-tour-texas-oklahoma Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Thu, 23 May 2013 13:04:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Michelle Cooper Staley http://www.worthpoint.com/article/michelles-antiquing-road-trip-tour-texas-oklahoma/comment-page-1#comment-161864 Michelle Cooper Staley Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:45:40 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2506479#comment-161864 Hi Mark, Some people are very squeamish about visiting a good cemetery. I just submitted an article about Weston, Missouri and a great shop I visit there. I briefly mentioned a cemetery there which has headstones dating back to 1840 and is also one of the few remaining maintained slave cemeteries. Several generations of Daniel Boone descendants are buried there as is a former girlfriend of Abe Lincoln. Like you, I love the history behind the pieces I collect and sell and wonder about who might have owned the pieces when they were new. A few years back assisted an archaeologist with identifying items they were finding around the living quarters of the people who dug the Panama Canal. It was amazingly fun and interesting. After the dig was completed he sent me a CD showing all the items they found in the area. Thank you so much for the compliment. Yes, my grandchild just turned 12. I did have her mom when I was pretty young and I must take this opportunity to brag on her. Yesterday she was named the Teacher of the Year for the school district in which she is a high school Science teacher. I guess that despite the young age I must have done something right along the way. My best to you and thank you for reading my articles. Michelle Hi Mark, Some people are very squeamish about visiting a good cemetery. I just submitted an article about Weston, Missouri and a great shop I visit there. I briefly mentioned a cemetery there which has headstones dating back to 1840 and is also one of the few remaining maintained slave cemeteries. Several generations of Daniel Boone descendants are buried there as is a former girlfriend of Abe Lincoln.

Like you, I love the history behind the pieces I collect and sell and wonder about who might have owned the pieces when they were new.

A few years back assisted an archaeologist with identifying items they were finding around the living quarters of the people who dug the Panama Canal. It was amazingly fun and interesting. After the dig was completed he sent me a CD showing all the items they found in the area.

Thank you so much for the compliment. Yes, my grandchild just turned 12. I did have her mom when I was pretty young and I must take this opportunity to brag on her. Yesterday she was named the Teacher of the Year for the school district in which she is a high school Science teacher. I guess that despite the young age I must have done something right along the way.

My best to you and thank you for reading my articles.

Michelle

]]> By: Mark childs http://www.worthpoint.com/article/michelles-antiquing-road-trip-tour-texas-oklahoma/comment-page-1#comment-161831 Mark childs Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:18:36 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2506479#comment-161831 Hello. It was comforting to find out that I (& one other person I know) are not The only ones out there who can appreciate a good cemetery. I remember When I was young and waking through the cemetery at historic fallsington pa. And seeing all the colonian era gravestones & being amazed at the history & wondered about the lives of those people who were alive & nearby when George Washington crossed the Delaware to defeat the hessians in Trenton. That summer afternoon walking through the cemetery in fallsington may have Been the catalyst to my studying archaeology in college & collecting antiques For the past 30 years. I particularly like the stories behind the antiques I collect whether they are accurate or not. Good hunting & I hope to hear more Of your antiquing adventures. PS. You don't look old enough to have a granddaughter. Hello. It was comforting to find out that I (& one other person I know) are not
The only ones out there who can appreciate a good cemetery. I remember
When I was young and waking through the cemetery at historic fallsington pa.
And seeing all the colonian era gravestones & being amazed at the history
& wondered about the lives of those people who were alive & nearby when
George Washington crossed the Delaware to defeat the hessians in Trenton.
That summer afternoon walking through the cemetery in fallsington may have
Been the catalyst to my studying archaeology in college & collecting antiques
For the past 30 years. I particularly like the stories behind the antiques I collect whether they are accurate or not. Good hunting & I hope to hear more
Of your antiquing adventures.

PS. You don’t look old enough to have a granddaughter.

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