Im jamie colby, and today, im visiting townshend, vermont. Classic Norman Rockwell america. Its the kind of place where neighbors can still leave their doors unlocked and where a country lawyer can let clients pay him with food from their farm or dinners at a restaurant or gifts of some kind. In fact, thats how this strange inheritance story begins. My name is paul weber. My father was a lawyer in smalltown vermont, who was always willing to help a client out. And thats how i ended up inheriting a really cool and really old chinese relic and a pretty strange story to tell. Im jamie. I meet paul, a local math teacher, and his wife, sarah, at their home. Come on in. Thank you so much. The residence doubles as a bedandbreakfast the couple have run for almost 30 years. I couldnt help but noticing, as i came in, you have a lot of exotic art. My father was always interested in asian art and he dabbled in painting a little bit. And so thats why we have lots of things around the house. When pa
Im jamie colby, and today im cruisin into nashville, tennessee. Music city. Im on my way to meet the sons of rock legend roy orbison. Turns out the man who gave the world oh, pretty woman, only the lonely, and you got it left his heirs an unexpected treasure, and possibly the opportunity of a lifetime. Im alex orbison. Even though my dad, roy orbison, passed away in 1988, my brothers and i, 25 years later, found something that would help us realize a lifelong dream. Alex hello. How are you . Im in hendersonville, just outside nashville, and alex has invited me to a musical landmark. Incredible. I cant believe im here. Welcome. Thank you so much. And the cash cabin. What is this place . Johnny cash built this cabin in the 80s as a getaway. One of the best Recording Studios in the world. And the families were close . Yeah, our families go back to the 50s, when johnny and roy were roommates and labelmates at sun records. I cant wait to learn more, and i would love to see inside. Of course
Im jamie colby, and today, im visiting townshend, vermont. Classic Norman Rockwell america. Its the kind of place where neighbors can still leave their doors unlocked and where a country lawyer can let clients pay him with food from their farm or dinners at a restaurant or gifts of some kind. In fact, thats how this strange inheritance story begins. My name is paul weber. My father was a lawyer in smalltown vermont, who was always willing to help a client out. And thats how i ended up inheriting a really cool and really old chinese relic and a pretty strange story to tell. Im jamie. I meet paul, a local math teacher, and his wife, sarah, at their home. Come on in. Thank you so much. The residence doubles as a bedandbreakfast the couple have run for almost 30 years. I couldnt help but noticing, as i came in, you have a lot of exotic art. My father was always interested in asian art and he dabbled in painting a little bit. And so thats why we have lots of things around the house. When pa
Well, you know, it could be about 50,000 times 4. Its a lot of money to put a kid through college these days. Like millions of other american parents, paul and sarah start scrambling. Theyll need, somehow, to raise more cash. Mortgage the b b . Maybe. But what about those puzzling chinese pieces . I thought, well, you know, if they are worth 10,000, that would be a chunk of change for college. In 2014, they track down lark mason, the man who appraised the items all those years ago. Hes no longer at sothebys but running his own auction house. I sent him pictures in an email, and he was very excited. Excited because, lark says, a lots changed since the 90s, when he appraised the screen for thats appropriate to the time frame . For that time frame, yes, absolutely. Chinas economy has grown dramatically from the 90s up to the present days. Theres a lot more people with money, with ability to buy things. Seems the swelling ranks of 21st century chinese millionaires have shifted the market f
And how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her fathers harrowing past. My name is Miriam Friedman morris. My father, David Friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer Miriam Friedman. As i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. Miriam, im jamie. Hi. Welcome. Miriam wrote us an email that said. It was so impassioned, i had to meet her. My goodness. Look at all of this. I feel like im in fineart gallery or a museum. Tell me about your parents. My parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. In her minds eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her fathers past. He doesnt tell her all that much. She knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. But shes in the dark about the full scope of his artistic career, including hundreds of drawings of top personalities for german newspapers