Cynthia Strauff

The Past is Always with Us…but sometimes it needs a bit of help. And I’m here to tell you that I did just that – helped the past. Not my past, but someone else’s. And so to tell the tale:

One of my father’s favorite pastimes was to haunt antique shops. Some of them were junk shops, but we’ll stick to his terminology. He would bring home various and sundry items, some of them exquisite and valuable,