--- title: Furniture Consignment Gallery Blog | kentucky description: kentucky | Should you refinish your old furniture? Will you hurt the value of your furniture by refinishing it? Find out more by reading our blog. --- [![](https://info.furnitureconsignment.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HubSpot%20Landing%20Page%20Images/fcg_logo_long_WHITE_600x75.png?width=600&height=75&name=fcg_logo_long_WHITE_600x75.png "fcg_logo_long_WHITE_600x75.png")](http://furnitureconsignment.com/)   # **Furniture Consignment Gallery Blog** ## [Kentucky Derby- Appreciating Martha On Race Day](https://info.furnitureconsignment.com/bid/106917/Kentucky-Derby-Appreciating-Martha-On-Race-Day) Posted by Jay Frucci on Sat, May 02, 2015 @ 11: 29 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![muybridge](https://info.furnitureconsignment.com/hs-fs/file-3237900829-gif/images/muybridge.gif)Harrodsburg, Kentucky is a sleepy town of about 9,000, except for certain times of year when the place is seized with a peculiar sports mania. That would be the winter college basketball season and the eve of the Kentucky Derby.   Some of the best gossip in town could be gotten at the Davis Beauty Shop. Martha Davis, the owner, was married to the basketball coach of Harrodsburg High School in Mercer County. He had a hotline to Coach Adolf Rupp of the University of Kentucky, one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball.   So the women of the bluegrass would make their weekly pilgrimages to see Martha - with the full encouragement of their husbands. That's because the women would come home not only freshly coiffed but also fully stocked with hot tips for their husbands on horses and basketball.       Now 95, Martha hasn't wielded a curling iron for a while now but she's still as elegant and indomitable as she was in her prime. Last year, she downsized and sold the classic belle of a mansion she and her husband, Coach Davis, had owned on Harrodsburg's Main Street.   Diana, my wife, was fortunate to get some of the beautiful furniture that graced her grandmother's home. So was Furniture Consignment Gallery. Martha entrusted us to sell some of her favorite pieces, among them an Empire chest and an antique pine rope bed.        Selling furniture with a story - that's what makes the consignment business so much fun. Stop by one of our showrooms today. It's Derby Day. 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While undertaking the sixteen-hour drive over the river and through the woods to my in-laws in Kentucky, I listened to a radio talk show. According to the enthusiastic host, Thanksgiving was the perfect time to discuss end-of-life issues with older relatives. ![wpc5acd0bf](https://info.furnitureconsignment.com/hs-fs/file-3237873504-gif/images/wpc5acd0bf.gif) In other words, white meat or dark? Burial or cremation? Pass the carrots, please. And, speaking of vegetables, when *do* you want us to pull the plug? So after we finished our family feast, I thought I'd broach some of those topics with my in-laws. "Have you two created a will?" I asked. "Who's the executor?" "Glad you asked!" Papa responded with great zeal. An Army veteran who did two voluntary tours in Vietnam, he wasn't a man to approach anything without a battle plan. "We've got good long-term care insurance in place," he said. "And we've taken care of the will." Diana, my wife, would be the executor. He paused then for a moment and nodded his head slowly. We all leaned in a little closer. "I've given a lot of thought to this," he said thoughtfully. "And I'd like my ashes to be spread all over Nancy." His wife's name is Becky. In the uproar that followed that disclosure, he quickly explained. Nancy, Kentucky is the home of the Mill Springs National Cemetery, one of the oldest national cemeteries in the U.S. Established during the Civil War, some 4,000 veterans are buried there. Well, the conversational floodgates opened - probably out of relief. Suddenly, everyone at the table had an outrageous death wish. "I want to be shot out of a cannon," my mother-in-law announced. She wasn't about to be upstaged in the department of grand theatrical exits. I looked over at Diana. She was starting to look a little panicky. How would she find a functioning cannon in Kentucky? Maybe some topics are better left alone at Thanksgiving. And probably Christmas. I've learned from this experience. So my advice would be to steer the conversation to more uplifting subjects. "Gosh, Mom, your dining table is so beautiful. 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