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High Notes 07-24-2014
I saw the most amazing demonstration on my computer recently…it is a
(skin-spray) gun with which researcher’s are spraying badly-burned skin, with
the victim’s own stem cells and the burns are taking mere days instead of weeks
to heal. The demonstration was with a
man who was accidentally burned when another man threw a cup of gasoline onto a
burning neighborhood bonfire. The man
suffered second degree burns over the top right portion of his body, including
the right side of his face neck and shoulder.
The video stated that the man was treated on a Friday, and the skin was
healed by the following Monday.
I get a regular website entitled “Big Greek Daddy” with funny and
interesting videos, and this information was part of the Monday, July 21,
selection.
Oh, I failed to report that Brian
Estepp, the glass-marble specialist, and Morphy Auction House of Pennsylvania
executive, was in the Rosemount area visiting his Mom and Dad, Bob and Carolyn
Estepp over the Father’s Day holiday back in June. The family drove down to see Jack Lewis, the
gunsmith/antique dealer, owner of the Shawnee Diner just east of Buena Vista, and they met with Mr. Lewis’ son-in-law,
Gary Taylor, to discuss and view some of Taylor’s
marble collection. Brian telephoned me
and told how he enjoyed meeting the family.
He was already acquainted with Jack’s oldest son, also named Jack Lewis,
who is the firearms specialist with Cowan Auctions, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Les Cowan, the owner of the Cincinnati firm, appears often on the
Antiques Roadshow which airs on PBS tv.
The other Cincinnati firm which I’ve written about
recently, is Wiebold Studios, an art and antiques restoration company in the Queen City. I wrote about Richard (Dick) Shy who retired
from the U. S. Marines and eventually utilized his artistic talent and now
works part-time restoring artwork. He is
a fellow 1957 graduate of Portsmouth
High School. Wiebold has a message appearing in
conjunction with their support of the Antiques Roadshow, and I always think of
Dick Shy when the hand appears to wipe dirt and grime from the picture.
Although I moved away from my
early interest in antiques and collectibles when I began my long newspaper
career, I maintain an abiding interest in the business. At one time I had a small antique shop
located on the east end of Lucasville, in property owned by Charles Scaff.
I originally became interested in
antiques, as a 14-year old and became acquainted with James and Florine
McConnell, owners of Hilltop Antiques on Kinney’s Lane. They were the parents of Linda McConnell, a
new summertime friend I met while selling flavored crushed-ice snowballs from
the Park Shoppe Snowball stand on 17th
Street.
Linda and Peggy Fairchild, another Lincoln Grade Schooler, would walk
home from Dreamland Pool, and stop at my stand.
I remember that I trumped up some excuse to close the stand early one
evening, and the girls waited around and Dave Otworth and I walked them the
rest of their way home through Greenlawn
Cemetery. That was the beginning of a wonderful
friendship with the girls and the McConnell family. Linda, now last name Noel, is the widow of
longtime Portsmouth
fireman, Jack Noel, and Linda lives on Forest Avenue, in the duplex next door to
my lady-friend, Nora Netzer.
This coming weekend, July 25, 26
and 27, 2014, there is to be a Native American Artifacts show in Manchester, Ohio. Val Minch, now of Hickory, North Carolina,
is a long-time friend and fellow relic collector, and he will be visiting for a
few days so we can attend the show.
