For someone who rarely attended auctions, my father somehow managed to host or co-host four different auctions in the last 20 or so years of his long life. Is that a record of some kind? The first, ...

It was a song about becoming an auctioneer and really made Brey Hansen, a student at Audubon, want to be an auctioneer.

COLLINSVILLE — Some matches are made in heaven. This match was made in a stockyard. In 1956, country singer Leroy Van Dyke’s tune “The Auctioneer” was released. It caught fire and became a top 10 hit.