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Sparksville auction: 'I hope they'll be dreamers'

By Linda Waggener

Who will be the new owners of the Jeff and Henrietta Scott homeplace, studio and apple orchard after Saturday's auction?

"I hope they'll be dreamers, Henrietta says, "I hope they're dreamers who know exactly how these buildings can continue to have life and meaning just like Jeffrey and I did."

Her beloved Jeffrey Scott died three years ago and as hard as she's tried since then, she says she finally had to admit the energy of the studio is gone for her and the physical strength to run the orchard is not there to keep it all at its best. So she chose to auction it and the sale is this coming Saturday, June 15, 2019.



Henrietta will be there, saying goodbyes to everyone who comes to the auction. And as the sale closes, she will say a final goodbye to the property on which they've raised their daughters, expanded at retirement from lifetime teaching careers, and built businesss.

Then she will take residence near family in Somerset and begin to paint again and her work will tell how her life goes from there. Her paintings during Jeff's illness and in the months after his death, she says, were terrible, angry things. She will try to look for the beauty again.

She is the visual artist and art teacher. Jeff was a history teacher who became an artist in their Highland Raku studio. "He simply bonded with the art of pottery making," she said. "I had taken training in it and never really loved it, but Jeff did and he was excellent at it."

Scroll down the page to the Golden Rule-Wilson auction banner ad for more. Click it to visit sale details. The sale begins in Sparksville Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 10amCT.

Thinking of the difficulty for Henrietta and her goodbyes this week, I'll add photos and comments. We shared tears and hugs at the open house last Saturday. She and Jeff were part of my family's life through the raising, education and launching of our children, around art and around local business ventures. Now Henrietta and I share being the ones left behind after having lost a partner of 48 years, and our monthers. The grief is unimaginable. - LW


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Sparksville sale: smiling through the tears



2019-06-10 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Who will be the new owners of the Jeff and Henrietta Scott homeplace, studio and apple orchard after Saturday's auction in Sparksville? "I hope they'll be dreamers, Henrietta says, "I hope they're dreamers who know exactly how these buildings can continue to have life and meaning just like Jeffrey and I did."

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Wheeler Store owner given school photos



2019-06-11 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Henrietta Scott thinks one of the photos found when she and Jeff bought the Wheeler Grocery Store in Sparksville may be of a young Magistrate Sammy Baker (center) who grew up near there. She's not sure, though, and doesn't know the ones at left and right. Maybe readers can shed light. The board full of school pictures will be sold at auction this Saturday with the building which became their Highland Raku studio.

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School day pictures in Wheeler Store, Sparksville



2019-06-11 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Thanks to Henrietta Scott, Tim Baker and Billy Joe Fudge, we know that the three young men in the middle row, far right, are Shorty Hamilton, left, Sammy Baker, and Billy (Junior) Furkin on the right. Here's the whole collection of school day photos kids would leave Miss Wheeler when they got off the bus that will be sold in the Highland Raku Studio building in Saturday's auction. We're checking to see who else we can identify.

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Letter: In the photo at Wheeler Store
Letter: More information on the photos

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Sparksville auction: Apple building and Wheeler's Store



2019-06-14 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.

On open house day Chase and Millie Brown visited with Henrietta Scott to see the property before tomorrow's auction Saturday, June 15, 2019. They explored the building Henrietta remembers having been called the Leif Akin building where he made furniture, including cedar hope chests. Most recently this building was where they processed their apples. She said they'd never been told why Leif built the top the way he did, maybe someone knows the story who can share yet.

In the background is the old Wheeler Store that she and her husband Jeff restored and turned into their art studio. We've had a lot of fun identifying the school days photos on the wall. She said Jeff loved the building where as a boy he'd worked on Model Ts with his grandfather. She said he told her they'd have to start them by pushing them off over the hill, popping the clutch. And if they didn't start they stayed at the bottom of the hill.

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