THE Grande DAME of Antiques
OK This is going to take a moment but hang in there. It’s important. Terry Kovel is going to tell you something you don’t know about her. It’s not a secret, exactly, it’s just that it never comes up.
Which is odd.
You would think after publishing more than one hundred antiques and collectibles books, having several TV shows, writing a syndicated newspaper column for sixty-five years, running a successful website for twenty-five years, and basically being the face and voice of the hobby with her late husband, Ralph, for just about forever, there wouldn’t be much you don’t know about the 92-year-old Terry Kovel.
But there is.
“I was a good swimmer. The backstroke, that was my specialty,” she says from her Shaker Heights home just outside of Cleveland.
Seems every summer, her parents sent her off to camp in Maine to escape the Cleveland heat. “I
