Vicki McClure Davidson | January 15, 2012
One of my newest guilty pleasures: History Channel’s “American Pickers.” The “picking travels” of the show’s amiable co-stars, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, is a fascinating whirlwind of rare, oft-times valuable Americana collectibles found in dilapidated barns, dirty basements, attics, sheds, closets, and countless other hiding places across the nation. Their feisty, tattooed assistant, [...]
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