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By Bill Walsh Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Sometime Saturday afternoon after Rappahannockers and others have been to their auction, Flash and Bernice Pearson will slip off their heavy and oppressive old winter coats, figuratively speaking, and breath a sigh of soothing relief
That shedding of the burden will accompany the final falling of the couple’s auctioneering hammers, concluding the sale of their Midland home and 47-acres farm and all that has been contained therein. Bernice knows the impending possible emotional rush; she has advised clients of its arrival for more than 40 years.
“I used to tell people that we were selling for when they would get upset going into an auction...that you have been wearing a heavy overcoat that has been weighing you down,” Bernice recounted at the still-in-the-family farm last week. “Come Saturday afternoon,” she would tell them, “when I give you this check for what you have realized from your auction, you are going to take that coat off and you are going to feel such relief
“I want that coat to come off; I want that relief” she said.
The proprietors of Pearson Auction since the mid 1950s, Flash and Bernice have been in semi-retirement since 2004, coming back to the area from what is now home in Georgia only to handle a discreet number of estate auctions for long-established Fauquier families.
This final sale replaces “semi” with permanent retirement.
The couple has been, for
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