DALLAS – A museum’s-worth of personal paintings, furniture and special objects belonging to adventurist Richard “Dick” Bass, the famous Texas oil baron and first man to climb the “Seven Summits,” the tallest mountain peaks on each continent, highlights Heritage Auctions’ Fine & Decorative Arts, including Estates, Auction Feb. 20-21.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A piano is pretty. The drums demand attention.
But no other musical instrument is as versatile, as storied and as widely popular as the guitar – at least according to the legions who strum, pick and shred it.
LONDON (AP) – Peter Rabbit is back, in a previously unpublished story by children’s author Beatrix Potter.
COWDEN, Ill. (AP) – Josh Wehrle is a 21st-century hunter with a keen nose for tracking down traces of the Stone Age. He hunts finely honed spear, dart and flint arrow tips used by Native Americans to kill everything from mastodons to deer.