Why do I do what I do?
Resale, antiques, and collectibles help to solve my desire for continuous
learning, treasure hunting, and mystery solving. For example, the batch of vintage 1970’s and
1980’s pinbacks I found in a tin purchased at an estate auction a few years
ago. I had great fun exploring the
different pins, imagining the anti-nuke activists, and then I had to find out
who Karen Silkwood was.
Silkwood died in 1974 in a mysterious single-car crash, shortly
after finding her person and home were contaminated by plutonium exposure. She had worked for Kerr-McGee and became a
labor union activist with nuclear safety concerns.
Silkwood’s story was featured in a 1983 movie starring Meryl
Streep that I now have on my “must watch” list.
Yes, I enjoy what I am doing, though it is not always very profitable
work. I now know the story of Karen Silkwood. How did I miss that growing up?
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