The Associated Press

DALLAS — In a May 21 story about the sale of items linked to George Washington, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the auction house, made two errors in reporting that the sellers of certain items descended from a brother of Washington's named Bushrod. Washington had a nephew, not a brother, named Bushrod, and the sellers are descendants of Bushrod Washington's brother, Corbin Washington.

Springfield farmer one of many selling out
BY NANCY SHARER, Review Correspondent

Published In the Pennsylvania Daily Review

The little calf glows in the afternoon light. Sunshine brushes her fuzzy, light brown coat as she stands on slender, knobby-kneed legs. She gazes at the world around her. With lashes as long as a movie star’s, her eyes are big, dark. Innocent.
Inside the nearby barn her family — black-and-white Holsteins, Jerseys and mixed breeds — waits for milking time and food from the hand of their owner, Matt Carlsen. They can trust Matt. A hard worker, he always provides. He loves them.
Matt’s busy. He stops a moment, though, to pet No. 427, Candy. It’s hard for the farmer to single out a favorite, but if he had to it would “probably have to be her,” he says. Candy’s a Holstein with a white triangle on her forehead and bristly hairs on her nose. She looks around with big, bugged-out eyes, as if wondering what it’s all about. Candy, Matt explains, will eat chocolate and potato chips. He pats her face and rubs her. You “can still walk up here and feed her a treat,” he says. She’s a nice girl.
Soon Candy will be gone. And so will the little Jersey outside. And all the cows in Matt’s Springfield Township barn.
There will be an auction next Friday. People will drive along a dirt road to the farm, where little gray hills seem to leap along the skyline like barn kittens playing in the sun and ponds are putting on their blue spring coats. The people will buy the cows, big and small, and the tractors and machines and haul it away, the things Matt’s worked with day after day and year after year. They’ll haul away his life.
Another farm’s story will end.

BATERBYS ART AUCTION GALLERY WILL HOST A FIELD TRIP FOR AUCTIONEERS AT THIS YEAR’S 2011 NAA CONFERENCE & SHOW -- JULY 12-16 IN ORLANDO, FLA.

The first-ever art auction gallery field trip will be held in Baterbys Art Auction Gallery, at 9101 International Drive.

(ORLANDO, Fla.) – Baterbys Art Auction Gallery will play host to the first-ever art auction gallery field trip at this year’s Conference & Show, a major annual event staged by the National Auctioneers Association. This year’s Conference & Show will be held from July 12-16 in Orlando. The field trip will be held in Baterbys Art Auction Gallery, at 9101 International Dr.

“Members of the National Auctioneers Association will join us as we demonstrate the art and science of the art auction business,” said Richard Hart of Baterbys Art Auction Gallery, one of the most prestigious art auction galleries in the country. “We will share our appraising, marketing and auction-day techniques, as well as the creative way we do business.”

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LARGE CHINESE BRONZE STATUE OF A STANDING FIGURE FROM THE MING DYNASTY HITS $27,600 AT NADEAU’S ANNUAL SPRING AUCTION, MARCH 20

Around 600 quality lots changed hands in a successful sale that grossed more than $400,000.

(WINDSOR, Conn.) – A large Chinese bronze statue of a standing figure, possibly a god of war or other deity and made during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), sold for $27,600 at the annual Spring Asian Antiques & Fine Art Auction held March 20 by Nadeau’s Auction Gallery. The event was held in Nadeau’s gallery facility, located at 25 Meadow Road in Windsor, Conn.

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They're likely to cost a whole truckload of pretty pennies, sure. But if you're swimming in shekels and looking for new conversation pieces at Stately Your House Manor, you'll soon have the opportunity to bid on some legendary swag that once belonged to Boston Celtics patriarch, Hall of Fame coach and basketball icon Arnold "Red" Auerbach.

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