| Toy show ahead for weekend
The 17th annual Tiger City Farm Toy Truck & Collectibles Show will be held Saturday and Sunday at Northbridge Mall. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. People can come and buy, trade or browse.More than 80 dealers with some 250 tables will have everything from Tonka parts, sports cards and coins, collectibles, cast-iron toys, Hot Wheels, tractor parts, dolls, pedal toys, new and used toys, antiques, trains, literature, toy horses, wagon hitches and saddles, and tractor manuals.Admission is free.Also on tap for Friday is the Minnesota State Spring Barrow Show at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds. Judging junior pens takes place from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. There will be junior and adult market hog contest registration from 8 to 9 a.m. The judging contest runs from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
ANTIQUE FURNITURE RESTORATION SERVICE
The Arts & Crafts Home is fortunate to be closely associated with the workshops of AD Restoration, a team of highly skilled and experienced antique furniture restorers, based in Brighton. We are leading specialists in 19th and 20th Century furniture restoration and renovation, working with Arts & Crafts furniture, Gothic Revival and Aesthetic Movement designs. We can offer FREE advice and FREE valuations for the repair, renovation and restoration of all your Arts & Crafts furniture. We have recently been commissioned to repair and renovate a unique group of furniture, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, and made by Whytock and Reid. Sir Robert Lorimer and his Furniture Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer (1864 - 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect noted for his restoration work on historic houses and castles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts style.
Historical Society nabs rare collection from 1850s magician
Neatly tucked inside his ornate, hand-carved trunk, Albert Walker kept the tools of his trade: magic wands, brass rings, decks of cards, a book on hocus-pocus, a fancy curtain and nine wooden puppets. But the Glastonbury magician and ventriloquist, who performed for audiences in the 1850s while in his late teens, also left behind nine diaries that span from 1856 to 1865, recording his life in fascinating detail. Walker tells of his work on the family farm, his careers fixing clocks, working at a spoon factory, making cigars and repairing shoes, as well as his beloved mother's suicide. He even wrote of his membership with "The Wide Awakes," a young men's political organization whose members wore long black robes and held torch-lit rallies for candidates. It's a rare and detailed glimpse into one man's life during the 19th century, said Susan P.
CULTURE: Local art, museums, more
BROOKGREEN GARDENS, U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island, is home to the Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington sculpture garden and features more than 550 works of American sculpture. The Lowcountry History and Wildlife Preserve houses waterfowl, river otters, alligators, foxes and deer in their native habitats. The Lowcountry Trail is a boardwalk through restored rice fields and archaeological sites of an overseer's home, a smokehouse and a slave's cabin. Also featured are Babette Bloch's sculptures of the the plantation's historical figures. Through March 4, the gardens will feature almost 60 sculptures as part of the National Sculpture Society 2006 Annual Awards Exhibition. Sundays and Tuesdays at noon through March 6, the gardens features "Silent Cities," a guided walk through slave and plantation owner's graveyards; tickets are $15 in addition to admission.
Finders and keepers flock to annual antiques show
From little trinkets to large pieces of furniture, there was a little bit of everything at the Robert R. Merlino Memorial Antiques Show yesterday in Cromwell Center, Tompkinsville. "There is so much stuff," said Gladys Schweiger, executive director of the Staten Island Alzheimer's Foundation. "There are all types of things -- estate jewelry, crystal, furniture. It's wonderful." She even found a little turtle statue for her granddaughter, who loves the shelled reptile. The Alzheimer's Foundation hosts the annual event, which attracts vendors from as far away as Pennsylvania and usually raises about $10,000 for the organization through admission, raffle sales and vendor tables. Ms. Schweiger said the profit they make from the event stays on Staten Island and is used to help run various programs.
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