Historical sale offers old and new treasures
A rainy, misty morning does not keep treasure hunters away from the fifth Boothbay Region HIstorical Society yard sale at the little red building next to Hawke Motors. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
Unique baskets are among the yard sale’s treasures. Sally Sewall helps a customer with her purchases. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
The inside of the red building is warm and dry and crammed full of furniture, appliances, art, clocks, bottles, books. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
This interesting collection of puppets (according to the lid) is among the oddities waited to be discovered. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
Browsing. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
Historical Society Board Trustee Susan Leach is available to offer assistance and make sales. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
A rainy, misty morning does not keep treasure hunters away from the fifth Boothbay Region HIstorical Society yard sale at the little red building next to Hawke Motors. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
Unique baskets are among the yard sale’s treasures. Sally Sewall helps a customer with her purchases. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
The inside of the red building is warm and dry and crammed full of furniture, appliances, art, clocks, bottles, books. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
This interesting collection of puppets (according to the lid) is among the oddities waited to be discovered. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
Browsing. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
Historical Society Board Trustee Susan Leach is available to offer assistance and make sales. SUE MELLO/Boothbay Register
The Boothbay Region Historical Society’s fifth annual yard sale, held in the red building next to Hawke Motors on Saturday, was a rousing success.
Donations were collected in boxes and on tables inside and out and shoppers searched high and low. There was about everything one would expect in a yard sale: books, rugs, blankets, art, frames, glass and kitchenware, small appliances, garden goodies, baskets, furniture and even a few antiques. All at rock bottom prices.
Business was steady and brisk. Board members Susan Leach and her sister, Sally Sewall, were efficiently tending to customers, ringing up sales and answering questions.
“We have been running yard sales together for many years and I wouldn’t say we have it down to a science but we like to think we know what we are doing,” Leach wrote in an email after the sale.
“We had a great turnout for the sale and sold everything from a violin to a carpenter’s chest. Two teddy bears were purchased by a man who is going to start a collection at a local church for anyone in need of comfort. And a history teacher from Milford, New Hampshire bought a kind of creepy-looking black World War I gas mask to use in his high school class.”
“Although there is always some dickering, many people paid more than the asking price — sometimes double or triple — to support the Boothbay Region Historical Society. Fantastic! Someone did point out that maybe the extra bonus dead mouse in a bottle should be taken out of the sale — which we did.”
Leach said the sale raised over $1,000 for the Historical Society.
“We made over $1,000 — all of which goes directly to support the Boothbay Region Historical Society. This is really a credit to everyone who donated items for the sale. We had great support from the members of the Historical Society and from the community at large. Since people were able to drop off items any time at the site I really don’t know everyone who donated but would like to thank them!”
Leach also expressed appreciation for Hawke Motors’ willingness to let the Historical Society use the little red building for the sale.
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