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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Anyone with trunks of old family “junk” packed away in the attic or basement should let Susan Carney have a look in those trunks. She will probably revise your thinking on “junk.”
She has been doing it for years, and it has in turn amused and exasperated her husband, Champ. Susan is a practiced and determined flea market and thrift shop searcher.
“Susan can’t go by markets without stopping, looking and buying,” said Vinnie Carney, Susan’s sister-in-law. “She has a good eye, though, and she can see beautiful and unique things in a flea market or thrift shop when all I can see is junk.”
It all began innocently enough when Susan began picking things up for her mother to sell at the Sperryville Antique Market. “My things started overlapping hers, so I had to set up my own booth,” Susan said. Soon the booth was not enough, and as her house started filling up with her finds, she decided to open her own shop.
That is the story behind Susan’s opening of “Twice Remembered Antique Clothing, Jewelry and Collectibles” on Saturday, May 4. The shop is located on Main
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