The Bank Auctioned His Workshop for $600 — A Bowyer Drove From Two States to See the Lathe
The Bank Auctioned His Workshop for $600 — A Bowyer Drove From Two States to See the Lathe In October of 2011, the First Central Bank of Ames County sold Silas Croft’s life for six hundred dollars. Or, to be more precise, they sold the contents of his workshop at 142 Tinker Creek Road. The two, for Silas, were the same thing. The auction took place on a Saturday, under a sky the color of washed-out denim. It was cold for October, with a wind that carried the smell of dying leaves and diesel exhaust from the generators powering the auctioneer’s sound system. #TheQuietFarmer #HeirloomCorn #SeedContest #CountyFair #OpenPollinated #OldFarmTales
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