Stop Worrying About the Future
When arrangements were made for me to view Kenny Walthes’ collection of antique farm equipment and interview him for an article in Farm Collector, they were conducted by a third party. It was an unusual approach, but I was busy – so when a mutual friend booked the date and provided directions to Kenny’s home in rural Illinois, it made it easy for me to just show up and go to work.
When I arrived on a warm summer morning, I was a bit early. Nobody was around, so I took in the outside displays, including a whimsical grouping of old signs, windmill fan and a ground-based cupola. Shed doors were open and a few pieces were outside, including a clover huller in stunning original condition.
At that point, the only thing I knew about Kenny Walthes was that he was said to have a phenomenal collection. That morning, everything I saw as I snooped around affirmed my mental image of Kenny as a man in his early 70s whose collection reflected the kind of knowledge,
