Indoor Yard Sale to benefit Gree

Are you interested in vintage toys? Furniture? Books? How about a honey extractor or a cherry pitter? Or those old-timey metal chairs where you’d while away a Sunday afternoon at your grandmother’s house?

The Greenback Heritage Museum, 6725 Morganton Road, Greenback, will have all these things and much more at its Indoor Yard Sale, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at the former museum space next door to the current museum. Items are reasonably priced to sell, from 50 cents on up.

The museum’s board of directors and other community volunteers have been organizing all the donated items. On a recent workday, directors Sandra Tipton, Jennifer Hedrick and Cindy Benefield spoke about all the treasures available for purchase at the sale, a fundraiser to help with operating expenses of the museum. Sale items were donated by community members, many of which were donated by John Cochran and Darlene Kerley.

Sampling of furniture

“We have three dining room tables, two of them with chairs,” said Tipton, walking through the former museum space with Benefield and Hedrick, who pointed out a dresser. “It doesn’t have a mirror,” she said. “We also have three antique beds, the headboards and footboards.”

A handmade cedar chest, a wooden desk and a sewing machine cabinet are also among the offerings. Hedrick said, “There’s another sewing machine cabinet that has the sewing machine with it. It’s a Montgomery Ward machine.”

Several miscellaneous small pieces of furniture and a leather occasional table are available as well as shelving, ladderback chairs, two rockers, an assortment of upholstered chairs and a sofa with a carved rosewood base.

Two vintage midcentury metal chairs that were common sights in yards decades ago are also for sale. Benefield said with a laugh, “I found some online selling for $395! I don’t think we’ll be getting that much!”

More to see

Headrick said there will be quite a selection of items in addition to the furniture.

“We have a large selection of quilt and craft books, afghans, home décor and holiday décor,” she said. Benefield added, “We have quilts and quilt tops, a Cuisinart coffee maker, crystal, pottery and vintage Tupperware.” Vintage tins, framed prints and other books will also be included.

Vintage toys will appeal to collectors. A sampling of those includes 1929 Tinkertoys in the original container; games, such as Dominoes and Checkers, also in the original boxes; model car kits from the 1960s; Beanie Babies; jigsaw puzzles; etc.

Several 4-foot wooden quilt squares hand-painted by Renee Berry and vintage glass from window panes from the restoration of the McCall-Kerr Hardware building, which now houses the Greenback Heritage Museum, will be sold.

About the museum

The McCall-Kerr Hardware building was donated to the town of Greenback by the late Rachel M. Ragain’s family for museum expansion. The former museum space next door, also owned by the town of Greenback, will be rented to another local business.

Work on the building began in October 2022, and the grand reopening of the new museum space was held on April 6. The museum contains twice as much room as its predecessor next door and includes additional storage, a conference room and a larger display area. Space is also available for genealogical or historical research with assistance from members of the Greenback Historical Society. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and is closed on holidays. Admission is free but donations are appreciated.