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Article: The Longest Yard; Four days a year, this 450-mile stretch from Kentucky to Alabama becomes the world's biggest flea market
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 29, 2007
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My fiance, Matt, and I are standing on a roadside in Kentucky
deciding whether we want an old cast iron sink full of mud. For
some, this might be an easy choice. But we are playing the is-it-a-
piece-of-junk-or-an-antique-worth-saving game. We stare at the sink
for a while, trying to envision it surrounded by freshly painted
bead board, beautiful. It takes effort to flip it over to see a rust-
free underbelly. A spider web clings to a corner. I find the sink's
owner sitting on a couch in the cool interior of a nearby barn.
"Five dollars for the sink," she says. Sold.
We're at a yard sale, but it's not just any yard sale; it's the
longest yard sale in the world. Four hours ago, we started ...