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32 Park Lane, which sold for £617,000 - Credit: Auction House East Anglia Auction House East Anglia held its third auction of the year on Wednesday, May 5, selling 44 out of 54 lots to create an 81% success rate and raising over £8 million. Robert Hurst, chartered surveyor and auction manager, said: “We are delighted with the results of our third auction of the year. There were 256 registered bidders and thousands watched the five hour auction live on our website, with buyers and sellers ...

Another exhibit for the jury would be the 2015 album Philadelphia Beat, featuring Heaths trio with Ethan Iverson on piano and Ben Street on bass. It opens with a version of "Bags Groove" — the Milt Jackson tune that Tootie surely played with older bro Percy Heath during his time in the Modern Jazz Quartet. Listen for how he states the initial pulse on finger cymbals, already swinging. Terri Lyne Carrington, "Giggles" Drummer, composer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has received no sho...

 The five-hour festival, which will be streamed exclusively at dso.org, will run from 2 to 7 p.m.  Mark Stryker, author of “Jazz from Detroit” and a former Detroit Free Press arts reporter and music critic, will serve as host. Performers include saxophonist McPherson with pianist Randy Porter, bassist Hurst and Black Current Jam, saxophonist Elliot and pianist Michael Malis (performing as Balance), and violinist Carter with Xavier Davis. “The musicians in the marathon reflect the full ...

Auction House has reported a record start to the year with over 561 lots placed into its February sale.

OUT OF THE PAST: Exploring Old Spanish Trail facts, fictions By Robert Hurst | Bay County Historical Society | Special to The News Herald For a long time, I had wondered whether there ever was a Spanish Trail that connected Florida’s St. Augustine with California or Mexico, or even Spain’s other Florida provincial capital of Pensacola. The Old Spanish Trail held my interest, but I felt it was too large of a project to tackle. That was until, in my investigations of local pioneer trails, I d...

PANAMA CITY — Four local history authors are joining forces for a series of book signing events in Panama City next week. Robert Hurst ("The Spanish Road"), Willie Spears ("Who was Hawk Massalina?"), Nancy Hudson ("George West: His Path in History"), and Kenny Redd ("Odyssey of the Enchanter") will share their work from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Panama City Publishing Co. Museum, 1134 Beck Ave.; from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 20 at the Bay County Historical Museum, 133 Harrison Ave.; and 1-3 ...

Published: 12:12 PM February 16, 2021    Fishing lakes, woodland and amenity land set in 4.8 acres in East Tuddenham sold for £116,000 - Credit: Auction House East Anglia Auction House East Anglia held its first auction of the year on Wednesday, February 10, selling 47 lots and raising almost £7.7 million.  One of the highlights was the sale of Tollgate Barns in East Tuddenham. Offered as three separate lots, the first lot comprised a complex of four linked converted barns set in three acr...

PANAMA CITY — The story of Hawk Massalina, an early African American pioneer in Bay County, is the stuff of legends. But for author, coach and motivational speaker Willie Spears, Massalina was the subject of old family stories. "When my grandmother was alive — Hawks youngest child, Helen — I would always tell her I was going to film her talking about her famous father. I said the same to my two aunts, her sisters," Spears said. "We as a family dropped the ball by not getting a first per...

Allen and Julia Domingos at SO Café at the Aspen Art Museum. (Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times) Responding to the second wave of pandemic-related restaurant closures and county-wide Red-level public health restrictions, the Aspen Art Museum on Thursday announced a new program that will provide free to-go meals for locals. The museum and its SO Cafe, operated by Allen and Julia Domingos of Epicure Catering, are aiming to feed locals as so many people’s livelihoods have been affected by the COVI...

Auction House East Anglia recorded its best ever success rate in 2020 - Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Auction House UK – operating as Auction House East Anglia in this region - is reporting its best-ever annual success rate of 79% - meaning that during 2020 it successfully sold four out of every five properties it offered. The group also sold more than 3,300 auction lots for the fifth year in succession (3,304 from 4,171 offered) and raised a total of more than £447m– up from £439m in ...