Thank you for visiting with us. My name is Dave Wright (second from the right - back row) who, along with Audrey, my wife and best buddy for the past 53 years, (second from right middle row)are the buyers, sellers, packers and shippers for thewwfamily on eBay.
The Wstands for the andering Wrightso named because of the many supportive moves the family agreed to as I accepted various assignments as a radio and television reporter.
More than anything, working eBay was instrumental in reigniting the creative fire that was all but extinguished when I retired some years ago. And eBay was involved when I learned of another productive and profitable creative challenge.
An Ebayer from England, who, while helping me date a Victorian silver piece, suggested a story idea. My follow-up resulted in the development of my new website that is -
Dedicated to the men and women who are retired but wish they weren't and those who, although years away from retirement, have given little or no thought to the creative aspect of retirement.
I hope you will visit and participate. Learn, as I did, how to sell your knowledge.
Beside the moving of product, eBay has proven, at least to us, that regardless of the oom Boomdominating our media today, the majority of our world is populated by honest, caring, decent people. Many of the folks around the world we have corresponded with through eBay have been generous with their time and the sharing of their knowledge.
eBay - It family.
All of us live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, a small but beautiful city on the shores of Lake Simcoe Kempenfelt Bay. We Barrieites consider our community, which is located about 45 miles north of Toronto, the gateway to Ontario scenic, lake-loaded cottage country.
Additional notes concerning this weeks listings:
Wallace Robinson MacAskill (1887 - 1956) was born the third son of Presbyterian merchant Angus MacAskill of St. Peter's, Cape Breton and his second wife Mary Cunningham. Perched on a narrow strip of land separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Bras d'Or Lakes, this coastal community nurtured what was to become an obsession with the sea.
By the time he was eleven, Wallace MacAskill had already managed to purchase a small sailboat and taught himself to sail among the coves of the Bras d'Or. A year later, a visiting tourist, impressed with the boy's helpfulness, sent him a camera. By the age of thirteen, he was thoroughly involved in the pursuits that would form both his career and foremost hobby. MacAskill left St. Peters around 1904 at the age of seventeen to attend the Wade School of Photography in New York in order to learn the skills necessary to earn a living as a professional photographer he graduated in 1907.
The MacAskill Collection contains 4330 cellulose negatives and 630 gelatin dry plate negatives spanning the years c.1916 - c.1949, as well as two collodion plate negatives c.1875 and 481 original prints. It has been commonly held as fact that MacAskill destroyed 99 out of 100 negatives. If this were true, based on the 5000 negatives remaining, MacAskill would have had an output of 500,000 scenic and artistic photographs, in addition to his work as a studio photographer. However, E.A. Bell, who had joint ownership of the yacht Restless on which MacAskill cruised the Bras d'Or in 1925, relates that the photographer printed only one out of every hundred negatives; and this would seem a more reasonable representation.
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