interesting places...
I learned that my co-worker Lora collected buttons –
old buttons – actually more specifically the cards that buttons used to be
attached to for sale. Those cards have
intricate and amazing art on them! Lora asked if we could visit antique stores
and antique malls to look for button cards.
Okay by me, because every such store is a visit to the past – a past I
still remember. It was memory lane time
for me, because my parents were older, and their friends were older, and I can
find, in every antique shop, some visage of the past from someone or others
house I remember visiting as a child.
Such memories are a comfort to me, as they were some of the happiest and
most peaceful hours of my childhood. Sitting on some Asian-patterned carpet,
quietly listening to the adults talk about things long past.
So into the antique shops we went. Any time we had extra
time to spare. I remember chatting with antique shop owners about various items
they had for sale… and did they list any of it on eBay? I recommended a few of
them that way – try listing on eBay to move items that are desired by folks far
away from Iowa, who will pay a decent amount for certain collectibles.
Thus somewhere in Iowa I found a spoon rest that
matched one my mother owned, but this one was not broken…
This was only part of our adventures in Iowa.
One snowy Saturday morning in February Lora and I made the trek from the Sioux City area to Vermillion, South Dakota, to the National Music Museum. Quite an interesting place for any music lover... everything from antique violins to electric guitars, and accordians, pianos.. anything and everything music.
The National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD
Another Saturday, in Columbus, Nebraska we visited a local library for a concert by digeridoo and zither. We happened upon the advertisement while perusing the local newspaper during breakfast. Lora asked if we could go, and why not! It was educational and the sounds were amazing. A winter afternoon well spent.
