Botkin lived in Missouri and East Texas before the instruments were damaged in a 1903 family house fire. The case may thus be a later replacement and possibly is handmade. The date of the instruments ...

When the new Sears-Roebuck catalog store opened on the south side of downtown Athens in 1959, according to the June 4, 1959 Athens Review, it was a reminder of Sears being a national commercial ...