Exquisite estate sale of the late Dorothy Kronemer

"Dorothy was born poor. Her father abandoned the family when she was only six and she grew up in a Western Pennsylvanian manufacturing town that was dying around her. Her mother made a desperate move across the state in search of work, and Dorothy took her first job unloading IBM equipment from freight trains on the midnight shift. Seeing her then in her dirty overalls and work gloves, few would have guessed where she was headed. Dorothy was inspired by the stories of self made people, and especially Helen Gurley Brown, the trailblazing editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, who started life...