{"id":1244,"date":"2010-11-22T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2010-11-22T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:04:51","slug":"tales-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Tales to Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday, I visited a craft fair – with some truly beautiful things for sale – but strangely enough, I didn’t feel inspired (nor did I buy anything) until I left the huge modern conference centre and wandered up the road to a flea market. Not just any flea market – this was the Hells Kitchen Flea Market here in Manhattan.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"Hells<\/a>
Hells Kitchen flea market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The thing I love about flea markets is that everything there has a story to tell. All you have to do is listen carefully…<\/p>\n

Sometime it’s a story about someone you know – or even about yourself.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A typewriter with tales to tell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This could almost be the very typewriter my Mum bought when I was about ten. She meant for it to be used for business… but it didn’t take long for me to discover that I could write stories on it. It had a hard case for protection . I almost wore the keys out writing stories about heroes on big white horses, and girls having wonderful adventures.<\/p>\n

The bits of a flea market that I love best are the personal items… particularly the jewellery.<\/p>\n

You occasionally hear stories of hugely valuable pieces being bought for a few dollars in a flea market. That’s never happened to me… and if I’m going to be honest, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the real thing and a fake.<\/p>\n

\"Real<\/a>
Real or fake?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But what is very real to me, is the story behind each of these pieces of jewellery.<\/p>\n

Some of them are quite old. Some are copies of valuable pieces that may have graced the windows of Cartier or Tiffany.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today they are on a table at a flea market – but once they must have been worn with pride.. perhaps with love.<\/p>\n

Did some young man save his hard-earned cash to buy one of these for the girl he hoped to marry? If I opened a locket, would I find a faded photo of the man it’s wearer loved?<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>
What memories?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did a mother pass on her one precious possession to a daughter?<\/p>\n

Which piece saw more love or happiness – the diamond encrusted gold brooch bought on 5th Avenue, or the cut glass copy?<\/p>\n

There are stories at every flea market.<\/p>\n

I’ll be listening again next time I go, and maybe one day, I’ll get to pass those stories on to you in a book.<\/p>\n

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