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In 2014, a Tennessee couple paid 58 cents for a West Point sweater at a North Carolina Goodwill; months later, experts authenticated it as Vince Lombardi’s, and it sold for $43,020

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In 2014, a Tennessee couple paid 58 cents for a West Point sweater at a North Carolina Goodwill; months later, experts authenticated it as Vince Lombardi's, and it sold for $43,020

In 2014, a Tennessee couple paid 58 cents for Vince Lombardi’s sweater; it later sold for $43,020 (Image Credit: Heritage Auctions) A sweater picked up for just 58 cents at a North Carolina Goodwill turned out to have a remarkable connection to football history. Tennessee couple Sean and Rikki McEvoy bought the black-and-gold sweater in … Read more

At 16, an Indiana girl earned 5 cents a day working at a neighbourhood café; her family later bought it, and 100 years after it opened her daughter still runs it

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At 16, an Indiana girl earned 5 cents a day working at a neighbourhood café; her family later bought it, and 100 years after it opened her daughter still runs it

Photos inside 100-year-old Sunny Italy Café in South Bend When 16-year-old Frances began washing dishes and serving customers at a neighbourhood eatery along the St. Joseph River in South Bend, Indiana, she earned just five cents a day. A century later, the same restaurant is still in her family, serving its famous hand-rolled meatballs and … Read more

In 1862, heirs sold Colorado’s Baca land for 30 cents an acre; 140 years later its 97,000-acre ranch sold for $31.28 million and helped create a national park nearly four times the monument’s original size

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In 1862, heirs sold Colorado’s Baca land for 30 cents an acre; 140 years later its 97,000-acre ranch sold for $31.28 million and helped create a national park nearly four times the monument’s original size

Photo: Baca Ranch House (clicked in 1920)Photo credit: Denver Public Library Collection via NPS A piece of land can begin as a forgotten investment and end as part of a national treasure. That is the remarkable story of Colorado’s Baca Ranch, a vast property at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In 1862, … Read more