It was an ordinary business lunch at an ordinary restaurant in the Town Center in Virginia Beach, mid-August 2006. For me, it was the closest a man gets to walking on air while eating a BBQ pork sandwich and onion rings at a Red-Star Tavern.
Wachovia, in the form of a loan officer named Tom Mitchell,...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
An Offer No REasonable Man Could Refuse
A Titanic Appraisal
I had a pretty interesting appraisal on an old stainless steel pocket watch, circa dates 1910 from the movement serial number. It looked like a workman’s watch. The story made it all the more intriguing. It was given to a young baby who was separated from his mother, on a lifeboat from the Titanic. The...