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Furniture: Mission oak settee and 4 side chairs, all w/pegs; petite oak icebox; oak podium dated 1854; fancy BW Davenport desk; oak hall tree w/seat; cherry hall seat; 4 section oak barrister bookcase; oak princess dresser; Larkin 1 door bookcase; tall oak chest w/mirror and serpentine front; brass & iron bed; hanging corner shelf w/heads; oak folding desk and bookcase; BW chairs; rocker w/lions; brass and marble stand; Arts & Crafts footstool; wooden lounge chair; Edison Home phonograph; Amberola; 39 inch horn; cradle; tables; etc.
Wicker, Rustic & Patio: 3 piece orig finish Bar Harbor set; orig finish Heywood Wakefield wingback rocker; 4 rolled arm chairs; orig finish sewing stand; Bar Harbor sofa; floor lamp; plus more wicker; Old Hickory child's rocker; unusual deck chair; black boy lawn sprinkler; bearskin rug; deer head; duck decoys by Harris, E V, Savage, Wray & Burrell; plus others; vintage soapbox derby racer; folk art club w/carved Indian; rare eel lamp; lawn rabbit; wrought iron stands; rustic chest; child's wheelbarrow; porch rockers; benches; etc.
Puzzling compulsion that keeps E-burg couple busy
When there's not much worth watching on television, Bob and Laura Kappes move their old card table next to their favorite chairs, plug in the old brass desk lamp and work on jigsaw puzzles.
"We don't watch much television except for 'Alice,' 'Cheers' and 'Mama's Family.' Everything is murder and rape, nothing too enjoyable to watch," 79-year-old Laura said.
Until three years ago when Laura had her hip replacement surgery, she spent her evenings quilting. But in the hospital, someone gave her a jigsaw puzzle to work on and she's been hooked ever since.
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Green Marin: With minor feuds, families learn to conserve together
If there is a war to protect the environment, the front line might be in the home with a skirmish line as close as the nearest light switch. In households everywhere, the quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) debate is raging. The husband leaves the lights on and the wife follows behind, reaching for the wall switch. Mom leaves the water on while she brushes her teeth, and Junior is yelling at her from the hall. The new family feud is painted green. Cyane Dandridge fights it every day, on two fronts. "Both of my kids are very green and very aware and very environmentally conscious and yell at other people for not turning off the water when they're brushing their teeth," says Dandridge, executive director of Strategic Energy Innovations in San Rafael. "But for some reason with lights, they are really bad about leaving them on.
Asian businesses urged to be eco-friendly
Singapore: Business executives in Asia were warned Thursday of the urgent need to change practices contributing to global warming if they want to succeed in the Western marketplace. "Climate change is not a northern problem," said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). "It touches on every sector."
More than 600 business leaders were attending the Global Business Summit for the Environment, the first major international conference on business and the environment in Asia .
The event was organized by the UNEP to raise corporate environmental responsibility by bringing companies together with the UN and other agencies.
"If you want to be a global player, these issues will affect your global competitiveness," Steiner said.
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