Meeting time: Third Monday of the month, dinner at 6:15 p.m., meeting at 7Where: Shoney's, 4410 Western Ave.
Contact: Cap'n Jack Morgan, 865-681-8926, www.facebook.com/ pages/East-Tennessee- Antique-Bottle-and- Collectibles-Society/
Cap'n Jack Morgan caught the collecting bug about 10 years ago when he happened to attend a show put on by the East Tennessee Antique Bottle Club. The collectors invited him to come to a regular club meeting and he's been an avid collector of old artifacts ever since.
Morgan, whose informal captain moniker befits a man with a penchant for boating, a boat dock business, and a sailor's cap on his head, says items other than bottles threw his collecting "bug" into fever pitch. Hand-crafted gearshift knobs quickly came to fire up this Indianapolis native. Then came old tobacco tins, of which Morgan now has more than 100.
As with Cap'n Jack, the collecting interests of the renamed East Tennessee Antique Bottle & Collectibles Society members have expanded through the years to include old signs of various kinds and old postcards, one even specializing in TVA postcards.
Many members still collect bottles, however, and many specialize in particular types. One collects only baby bottles. Another only poison bottles. Yet another, ink bottles.
Cap'n Jack describes ETABCS meetings as friendly and informal, noting "Show and Tell" as one of the now-and-again activities at club meetings, adding with a pause (and mischievousness in his voice), "Sometimes a member will show it and someone else in the club will have to tell him what it is. But most of the time a club member knows what it is and will do research on it to find out additional information."
"Stump the Club" is another club favorite. If anyone can bring in an object — not just a piece off of something — and knows what it is and no one else in the club knows, then the club buys that person's dinner. Morgan says the club is seldom stumped.
Sometimes a book can come out of a collector's obsessive zeal. Kenneth Cornett and Larry Mince, both ETABCS members, wrote a book that attempts to identify every dairy, milk bottle and milk bottle cap to appear in Blount County. "Udderly Blount: A Documentation of Dairy Farms and Milk Bottles in Blount County, Tennessee," quickly sold out of its first printing.
Though finding big-ticket treasures like the Lincoln book or becoming an author can certainly please any collector, ETABCS members seem mostly in it for the appeal of collecting things that have personal, artistic or cultural meaning for them individually.
East Tennessee Antique Bottle and Collectibles Society has about two dozen members, pretty evenly split between men and women, and maybe a dozen typically show for any given meeting, according to Morgan. There are no club dues at present. New members are welcome.
Wayne Waters may be reached at wwwordsmith@gmail.com. Club Connection is a monthly feature of the Knoxville News Sentinel's Life section designed to profile enthusiasts' clubs rather than support groups or clubs primarily devoted to professional development or political activism.
Source: www.knoxnews.com
Antique cars to travel through Lawrence County - Ellwood City Ledger
Posted: Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:36 pm | Updated: 6:32 pm, Fri Jun 8, 2012.
HARLANSBURG – About 25 Model-T Fords will visit Mercer and Lawrence counties Tuesday as part of the third annual Ocean to Ocean Reunion Tour.
Stops include the Harlansburg Station Museum of Transportation in Harlansburg at about 11 a.m., plus the town of Mercer and the Village of Volant.
Model-T enthusiasts from as far away as Canada, Virginia, New York and Arkansas will participate.
The reunion brings together Model-T enthusiasts who participated in the Centennial Tour of 2009 when 55 Model-Ts traveled from New York City to Seattle, said Ken Hummel, tour coordinator, in a news release.
The 2009 tour commemorated the running of the 1909 Ocean to Ocean Endurance Run won by a Model-T Ford.
The 1909 contest, sponsored by millionaire Robert Guggenheim, was part of a publicity campaign for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle that year.
The 2012 reunion tour will be headquartered in Meadville from Monday through Thursday. Traveling between 30 to 35 mph, the Model-Ts will stop in various northwestern Pennsylvania communities during their four-day stay.
“We travel between 100 to 110 miles per day, stopping at different Ford dealerships in the morning for coffee and doughnuts,” said Hummel.
“Our travel takes us on the back roads where there is little or no traffic.”
Monday’s tour includes the towns of Edinboro and North East, where the enthusiasts will visit the various wineries plus the Interstate Antique Mall.
Visits to the Drake Well Museum, Cross Creek Resort, Oil Creek State Park, plus the towns of Oil City and Titusville are all a part of Wednesday’s tour.
On Thursday, the Model Ts will be driven around Conneaut Lake and through the communities of Jamestown and Greenville with stops at the Greenville Railroad Museum and Pymatuning Reservoir.
Automobile enthusiasts are invited to view and possibly get a ride in a Model-T at any of the stops listed. Hummel said that “there are different horseless carriage clubs across the country and we love touring through the back roads.”
For information on the Lawrence County visit, call the Harlansburg Museum of Transportation at (724) 652-9002.
Information on the Ocean to Ocean Reunion Tour is available at www.oceantoocean.ning.com.
Posted in Community briefs on Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:36 pm. Updated: 6:32 pm.
Source: www.ellwoodcityledger.com
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