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It’s been a few months since Judy Perry took ownership of the Bates City Antique Mall in December. Admittedly, Perry said, a few people doubted whether adding another mall to her responsibilities was a good move. But Perry knew many of the dealers. She now flatly says, “I proved them wrong.”
With the addition of the Bates City mall and her ownership of Main Street Mall in Grain Valley, Perry now has over 100 dealers under her guidance. Expanding her ownership into another large mall seemed a natural expression of her antiquing nature.
“It’s (antiques) just a passion,” she says. “I love the people, the research — my grandfather was an auctioneer in Iowa.”
That may have been the spark, for all it took to jump into the antique business 29 years ago was a couple of garage sales, says Perry. “It went from there. I started with 800 square feet in Grain Valley.”
Perry likes 1930-‘40s kitchenware while husband Richard is a cast-iron collector.
The Bates City Antique Mall is a former feed store and the country feel remains. With over 60 dealers, including a Gold Level Fenton dealer, antique lovers will find primitives, furniture, fishing items, vintage books, linens, coins and fine and costume jewelry.
On April 30, 3-5 pm, the mall will host a Fenton Family signing with Scott Fenton. Beginning May 1 and every Saturday into the fall, a flea market and later a farmers market — once the crops are in — will be open.
Hours for the Bates City Antique Mall are 10-5, Monday thru Saturday, 11-5 on Sunday. Call 816-690-8505 for more information.
The St. Joseph Museums is seeking vendors of quality flea market items such as antiques, collectibles, jewelry, home décor, and/or quality used items for the “Treasures, Trash, and Tunes” flea market. The event will be held on the St. Joseph Museum grounds on Sept. 26. The fee to participate is $25 for a 10’ by 15’ space.
To apply and for more information, call 816-232-8471 before 5 pm, or after 5 pm, call 816-2626-8462.
Kelly Littman says her love for fashion and interior design led her to found the Farmstead Lifestyle motif. Such creativity will be on full display May 7-8 at the Spring Antiques Home & Garden Show in Platte City.
This show is guaranteed to be full of design surprises, including chicken wire dress forms, handmade mini albums, “redux” jewelry, artwork and aprons. Plus workshops in design and garden décor will be held.
For more information, call 816-858-0120, or visit http://farmsteadlifestyle.blogspot.com.
Artist featured during art crawl
Willow Spring Mercantile in Excelsior Springs is one of several shops and galleries participating in the 2nd Friday Art Crawl held May 14.
Tom Cowherd from Nature’s Elements will be the featured artist at Willow Spring during the crawl. Cowherd’s work is a blend of precious metals, natural hand-cut stones and Swarovski Crystal to create unique jewelry designs. His work is especially noted for its silver and wire wrapping in forming a “perfect” handcrafted artisan piece. Most pieces are under $100.
For more information on the Art Crawl, call 816-630-5060. Contact Willow Spring at 816-630-7467 or visit www.ShopTheMercantile.com.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, an exhibition on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is on display at the National Archives at Kansas City thru June 10. The exhibition was brought to Kansas City in cooperation with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the Center for Practical Bioethics. Admission is free.
The exhibition features original artifacts, photographs, documents and historic film footage illustrating how Hitler’s Nazi regime implemented its vision of an ethnically homogeneous community.
“Deadly Medicine explores the Holocaust’s roots in then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought,” says exhibition curator Susan Bachrach. “At the same time, it touches on complex ethical issues we face today, such as how societies acquire and use scientific knowledge and how they balance the rights of the individual with the needs of the larger community.”
For more information, call 816-268-8000 or visit www.archives.gov/central-plains.
Ray County’s old Poor Farm — now the Ray County Museum — in Richmond will celebrate its 100th year on May 22. Built on a hill overlooking the county fairgrounds in 1910, the three-story, brick structure has 54 rooms and a unique “Y” shape — every room has an outside view. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Research done by Rod Fields of the Ray County Historical Society found that the Poor Farm operated in various functions from nursing home to hospital to shelter to welfare to jail.
“The nursing home is the easiest to explain since we have this type of facility today,” wrote Fields on the historical society’s web site. “Until 1959, Ray County did not have a location for the poor and/or elderly to go.”
Those down on their luck came because of two reasons: medical and “hard times.” But the poor were placed only through the court, which had to agree that one could not support himself or herself or his or her family. Even then, the Poor Farm was not free. Everyone who could work worked at the farm for his or her room and board.
In 1973, the Poor Farm became the Ray County Museum, displaying many artifacts from the early 1800s to 1940s. The museum is open Wednesday thru Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information, go to www.raycountyhistoricalsociety.com.
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