Digging up History

While looking for antiques and collectibles at Canton First Monday Trade Days in East Texas, we came across a historian we had met before at Buchannan's Market in Lewisville held each third weekend (next show is Oct 20-21, 2012). Scott Freeland, author of "They Too Were Americans: The German-American Bund in Words, Photos and Artifacts,"  is a very knowledgeable historian with a vast collection of Militaria, Toys and more. His collection spans earliest civilizations to post-modern era artifacts. 

Among the most modern, an original 1962 Little League uniform. His specialty being Bund History, WWII weaponry is largely represented in his collection. But for me, perhaps the most interesting is his early civilization artifacts, including ancient celtic bronze ring money dated 7th Century B.C.

Fall Photo Micro Session at Hawkins Oil Festival Oct 13

Two Moons Productions, producers of The Rare Collections magazine, will be hosting a micro photo session for individuals and families in their booth (W7) at the Hawkins Texas Oil Festival October 13th 2012. The event theme is "A Fall Walk in the Park" and the photo session will feature a fall backdrop where families or individuals will be able to have professional photographs taken for a very affordable sitting fee of $25 which includes a re-touched and finished 8 x 10 photo. Additional photographs may also be purchased for an additional fee.

Lone Ranger Frontier Town circa 1948

 In my day of eating lots of cereal, Lucky Charms was my personal favorite, I would get excited about toys found inside the box. I also loved it when the box itself could transform into a mask or some other cardboard cut out toy. But I never had a long-term relationship with my cereal box toys. Now I wish I had. Long before my childhood, advertisers centered these toys around loveable characters from daily radio programs and it made for a powerful interactive experience, long before the internet.