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Jana Boag and board member Jeff Varner picture themselves winning a Victorian mirror at the Heritage Auction on October 18.
Photography by Evan Pilchik
Full steam ahead: Kenton neighborhood activist Pam Arden admires the handiwork on a 1920s-era Northern Pacific Railroad locomotive headlight. Arden also received Bosco-Milligan’s inaugural Preservation in Action Award for organizing the restoration of
Photography by Evan Pilchik
Pap Abellan (left) and Hap Leonard play it close to the vest during the evening’s silent auction.
Photography by Evan Pilchik
The Bosco-Milligan Foundation commemorated its twentieth anniversary by hosting the thirteenth annual Riches of a City Heritage Auction. Some 350 history buffs gathered at the Governor Hotel to mark the occasion and to snag a treasure trove of relics, such as an antique locomotive headlight, or lavish travel packages like a weeklong escape to Nantucket. The big-ticket prizes ushered in $70,000 for the foundation’s historic preservation programs.
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