Museum of Wonder http://www.museumofwonder.com Butch Anthony's Art + Architecture Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Snowed In in Chapel Hill http://www.museumofwonder.com/snowed-in-in-chapel-hill/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/snowed-in-in-chapel-hill/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:52 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/snowed-in-in-chapel-hill/ 20120220-093625.jpg

]]> http://www.museumofwonder.com/snowed-in-in-chapel-hill/feed/ 0 Whirligigs http://www.museumofwonder.com/whirligigs/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/whirligigs/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:25:40 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/?p=1191

]]> http://www.museumofwonder.com/whirligigs/feed/ 0 Just saw one of John Henry Toney’s Oreo Cookie Cows! http://www.museumofwonder.com/just-saw-one-of-john-henry-toneys-oreo-cookie-cows/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/just-saw-one-of-john-henry-toneys-oreo-cookie-cows/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:29:06 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/?p=1165 In Pittsboro, North Carolina!

]]> http://www.museumofwonder.com/just-saw-one-of-john-henry-toneys-oreo-cookie-cows/feed/ 0 Bynum, North Carolina http://www.museumofwonder.com/bynum-north-carolina/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/bynum-north-carolina/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:14:24 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/?p=1161 read the rest…]]> Stopped off in Bynum today to visit with Clyde Jones

We sat on his porch and dipped snuff.

Has all these critters in his yard.

He makes them with a chainsaw.

His whole house is painted up with his “critters”

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 I found this place in Alabama yesterday that charges $6 bucks and you get to hear all  the  news from the old-timers. I just mentioned that i was looking for scrap iron and got  leads in a 60 mile radius!

The place was decorated straight out of 1972 and had dusty bottles of bay rum aftershave lotion from the 70′s for sale at $1.29!

           

]]> http://www.museumofwonder.com/haircut-6-dollars/feed/ 0 Idler’s Manifesto http://www.museumofwonder.com/idlers-manifesto/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/idlers-manifesto/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:03 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/?p=1123

]]> http://www.museumofwonder.com/idlers-manifesto/feed/ 0 Circus Grave http://www.museumofwonder.com/circus-grave/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/circus-grave/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:09:17 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/?p=1117 read the rest…]]> Finally found the gravestone shaped like a circus tent in Columbus, Georgia yesterday.

Found it when i went to the scrap yard to sell a load of leftover iron from art projects gone bad.  I asked the dude helping me unload if he had ever heard of  it and he said ” yeah man, that things right across the fence there”

He said they buried 2 of every kinda animal and the circus people “All in one big hole”

And there it was

Read more about it here:   http://columbusandthevalley.com/archives/ma10/bigtop.html

 

]]> http://www.museumofwonder.com/circus-grave/feed/ 1 Guest Chef Coming to Possum Trot Friday Night 2/3/2012 http://www.museumofwonder.com/guest-chef-coming-to-possum-trot-friday-night-232012/ http://www.museumofwonder.com/guest-chef-coming-to-possum-trot-friday-night-232012/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:21:42 +0000 ButchAnthony http://www.museumofwonder.com/?p=1105 read the rest…]]> Guest Chef Coming to Possum Trot Friday Night  2/3/2012

Cathy Fussell will be cooking her famous Red Beans and Rice Friday at the auction. Don’t miss out.

We cooked  Biscuits last Friday night on the fireplace in the dutch oven.

Biscuit Eaters!

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Some of the stuff coming to auction tonight:

1950′s Hawthorne Bicycle w/ ” Noisemaker” crank motor attached

1950′s Kitchen Table w/ four chairs

1950′s Kitchen Corner Cabinet

 1950′s Kitchen Cabinet with stencils/black knobs

TALL Old Split Oak Cotton Basket w/ lid

Old Quilt tops/linens

Cast Iron

Cast Old Metal Clock

Old Pictures

Metal Buckets

Adirondack Chair

2 Round Oak Tables

Vintage Lamps

Lamp with prisms

Craftsman Table Saw

A Few Old Tools

Collectibles

Misc. Furniture

Auction starts at 7:00 pm EST

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