SEABAUGHS PLAN COLLECTIBLES DISPLAY AT MUSEUM

The Seabaughs recently acquired this safe door.

Gail Seabaugh displays a selection of colorful feed sacks.

Gail and Garry Seabaugh of Seabaugh's Woodworking, at 425 E. Main St. will display their antiques and collectibles from 1 to 4:30 p.m. May 6 at the Oliver House Museum in Jackson.

Items on exhibit will include sackcloth, graniteware, tins and crockware.

Seabaugh's Woodworking strips, refinishes and repairs furniture, as well as sells antiques and collectibles.

As a child, Gail Seabaugh recalls her grandmother making quilts from feed sacks. Her grandmother kept the quilt pieces in a shoe box and Gail Seabaugh enjoyed looking through. S

Sackcloth, even though it is 57 years old, retains its color and durability. The whites, somehow are still white, not yellowed.

The nostalgia associated with feed sacks has enticed Gail Seabaugh to collect it through the years. The prints of animals, flowers and stripes are fun to decorate with, she said.

In the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s printed feed sacks were used for aprons, dish towels, quilts and dresses.

The Seabaughs have collected graniteware, tins and crockware to decorate their home over the years, and Gail Seabaugh likes to use the crockware bowls, pitchers, butter crocks and crock churns.

Garry Seabaugh, however, disagrees with using the items.

"If you break them," he said, "look what you've lost."

Still, Gail Seabaugh uses them for the holidays.

The couple's newest edition, from an auction, is a door to a safe they plan to use when they build their next house.