A few years ago, I wrote for the Santa Barbara News-Press about how I came into possession of two Nantucket Baskets – as famous on the East Coast as the Kelly and Birken bags are in Tokyo, Paris, and London.
The straw baskets, with carved sea life on the wooden lids, were recognized for their intrinsic value and reminded me of genteel summer times, of al…
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