Culture, giving and great people are in abundance in Palm Beach, where we are publishing Dan’s Papers Palm Beach, and last week was filled with all three!
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is offering nearly two dozen amazing and audience-wowing shows and events during the month of March.
It is kind of delicious for someone like me, who believes the stalled and impossibly expensive and impractical plans for a downtown New London Coast Guard museum need to be scrapped, to read a scathing criticism of the project by one of its partners.
Cross Sound Ferry eventually signed on to support the problematic waterfront museum site after then Gov. Dannel Malloy pledged in 2013 to provide $20 million to build a bridge across the railroad tracks connecting the downtown to the proposed museum as well as a new ferry terminal planned by Cross Sound.
The ferry company, it seems, hated the idea of the waterfront museum before it loved it.
Strawser Auction Group announces four-day antique auction
Minton iconic majolica game tureen and cover, the cover having the heads of two hares and two ducks realistically colored and symmetrically arranged (est. $25,000-$35,000).
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND
.- A four-day Antique Auction bursting with nearly 2,000 lots of quality items, including important collections of majolica, Pickard china, World War II collectibles, Fenton glass and more will be held May 26th through 29th, by Strawser Auction Group, live in the gallery at 106 East Dutch Street in Wolcottville, as well as online via LiveAuctioneers.com.
Of special interest is the Ann and Robert Fromer collection of majolica, assembled over the course of more than thirty years. The Fromers were avid collectors, said Michael Strawser, the president of Strawser Auction Group and founder of the Majolica International Society. The pieces in their collection are outstanding. The estate collection of Pickard china is also superb.
WOLCOTTVILLE, Ind. â A four-day Antique Auction bursting with nearly 2,000 lots of quality items, including important collections of majolica, Pickard china, World War II collectibles, Fenton glass and more will be held May 26th through 29th, by Strawser Auction Group, live in the gallery at 106 East Dutch Street in Wolcottville, as well as online via LiveAuctioneers.com.
âOf special interest is the Ann and Robert Fromer collection of majolica, assembled over the course of more than thirty years. The Fromers were avid collectors,â said Michael Strawser, the president of Strawser Auction Group and founder of the Majolica International Society. âThe pieces in their collection are outstanding. The estate collection of Pickard china is also superb.â