Positive Story: Crock Sitting on Her Porch for 40 Years Fetches $32k After She Hoped for $100 on her Birthday | A Story Worth Sharing

Positive Story: Crock Sitting on Her Porch for 40 Years Fetches $32k After She Hoped for $100 on her Birthday | A Story Worth Sharing

Why this story matters: Not all news is bad news. This story highlights the kind of progress that often goes unnoticed. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to arts, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. Lois Jurgens says goodbye to her salt-glazed 30-gallon Red Wing crock, surrounded by creamy white zinc-glazed pots up for auction (Photo Permission from Bramer Auction and Realty) Like many elderly folks in the midwest whose families used stoneware crocks for sauerkraut, Lois Jurgens held onto one for 40 years. It sat on her porch weathering decades of harsh Nebraska winters until early this month when she was planning for a yard sale. She had a notion the heavy crock might be worth $100 if it could be put up for auction, instead of selling at a yard sale, so she called Ken Bramer. Coincidentally, his auction house had already secured dozens of antique Red Wing crocks for an event that would draw 300 excited bidders to Buffalo County on…