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When Henry Ford was setting up his Museum and Village at Dearborn one of his agents came into
Emma Elston's shop and
found two items which could be used in the historic re-creation. There was quite a bit of negotiating over
a violin and a pair of drapes. The man from the museum wanted them, but he wanted Emma to donate them. She
said that Henry Ford's got a lot more money that I do -- if he wants them he can buy them.
[David Trumbull wrote this down in the early 1980s after hearing the story related many times by Maybelle Elston and Kenneth Schenk.]
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