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Children’s Program To Celebrate George Washington’s Birthday FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2019 • VOL. 50, NO. 5
Rock Ford Plantation To Commemorate Founding Father On Feb. 10
Father/Son Team Of Charles and Scott Wehrly Honored By Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association
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Charles Inducted Into Hall Of Fame, And Scott Named Auctioneer Of The Year Brian McCreary portrayed President George Washington at last year’s children’s program commemorating Washington’s birthday. Come celebrate George Washington’s birthday at Rock Ford Plantation on Sunday, Feb. 10. This celebration, designed for children ages 4 through 10 years, will be held at 2 p.m. in the Rock Ford Barn. Children will learn about our nation’s first president through approximately two hours of
Colonial-themed crafts, games, stories and other activities. As an added bonus, there will be a special guest appearance by “George Washington.” The children will also sing “Happy Birthday” and enjoy cake and ice cream. Reservations are required and
Pook & Pook Inc. With Noel Barrett To Hold Online-Only Antique Toy Auction on page 2
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Charles and Scott Wehrly were recently honored by the PA Auctioneers Association. The father-and-son team of auctioneers Charles and Scott Wehrly of Glen Rock, Pa., were recently honored at the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association (PAA) Conference held in Harrisburg, Pa. Charles (father) of the Central Chapter of PAA was inducted into the PA Auctioneers Hall of Fame, which is the highest honor bestowed to professionals in the association. Also, at the annual conference, Scott (son) received the accolade of PA Auctioneer of the Year. This is just the second time a father and son received such honors in the same year at the conference’s annual awards banquet (Blaine and Nevin Rentzel being the other two). Also during the conference, Wehrly associate Shawn Carbaugh placed fourth out of 22 in the bid calling contest, which was
held the evening of Jan. 9 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Another honor for Charles occured when the state’s swine association honored him for his years of service to the organization, dating to the 1950s, showing hogs and being a ringman. The PAA Conference is held concurrently every year with the State Farm Show. Wehrly’s Auction Service sells firearms, coins, tools, antiques, and real estate and is based in York County. They are located at 4067 Snyder Road, Glen Rock, Pa. To learn more, call 717-235-4146. Remember when looking for an auctioneer, find out if they belong to the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association, where members abide to a professional code of ethics and laws.
Charles and Scott Wehrly at the awards banquet.
“Dorothea Lange’s America” To Open At Lebanon Valley College The Great Depression (1929-39) was the catalyst for a tremendous outburst of creative energy in America’s photographic community. The devastation wreaked on the country inspired a host of socially conscious photographers to capture the painful stories of the time. An exhibition running now through Sunday, March 24, at Lebanon Valley College (LVC) in Annville, Pa., features the work of Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) and 13 other such artists. Lange’s empathetic images of migrant workers, suffering families, and tortured landscapes seared the faces of the Depression into Photographer Dorothea Lange’s (American, America’s consciousness. 1895-1965) “Migrant Mother” from Nipomo, Calif., This exhibition includes was taken in 1936. The gelatin silver print is courtesy culturally celebrated works of art2art Circulating and on view at Lebanon Valley such as Lange’s “White Angel College. Breadline” (1933), “Migratory Cotton Picker” (1940), and her ever- the McCormick Family Foundation, iconic photograph “Migrant Lebanon Valley College, and conMother” (1936). All works in tributing members of the Friends of “Dorothea Lange’s America” are the Gallery. Gallery hours are Wednesdays drawn from the private collection of Michael Mattis and Judith from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursdays and Hochberg and organized by art2art Fridays from 1 to 4:30 p.m., Circulating Exhibitions. Students in Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. LVC’s spring 2017 course titled “The to 5 p.m., and by appointment for Photograph” wrote descriptive groups. Call 717-867-6445 or email labels for the exhibition, which is being held on the campus’s gallery@lvc.edu to arrange a private gallery talk for a school, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery. Support is provided by church, or other organization Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, group.
Morphy’s Field And Range Firearms Auction To Feature Outstanding Rarities on page 7
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery’s Sale Breaks The Seven-Figure Mark on page 11
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society To Host Winter Bookfest on page 13
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 6 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 8 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 8
FEATURED AUCTION: PA Auction Center - February 21 in Quarryville, Pennsylvania - Page 4
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15