Historical Society holds yard sale

Indoor event draws crowds

There are bargains to be had at the Lorain Historical Society’s Indoor Yard Sale.

The semiannual fundraiser opened at 10 a.m. May 4; it then runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 5 and 10 a.m. to noon May 6 at the BRIAR space at 668 Broadway.

This year’s sale includes books, tools, housewares, furniture, and more.

“It’s amazing – we have more this year than we have had in any of our other sales,” said volunteer Sue Sauer, who coordinates the sale.

About 30 volunteers coordinate the annual sale, which will draw hundreds of people to browse and buy over three days. On May 4, customers were grateful for a chance to browse indoors.

“We had them lined up out front when we opened up at 10,” Sauer said.

Shopper Dolores Brown saw the event listed in a AAA newsletter. In the rainy and cool weather, Brown said she also had time to listen to an audiobook as she drove to Lorain from Euclid, an eastern suburb of Cleveland.

“It’s a nice, rainy day to be doing something like this,” said shopper Linda Jeffries of Lorain. It was her first time browsing at the LHS Indoor Yard Sale and Jeffries anticipated leaving with at least one or two items.

“I always find something,”

she said.

The location for the yard sale is the Black River Innovative Artist Residence, owned by downtown Lorain developer Gary Davis. The Indoor Yard Sale also has been held in the meeting space of the Charleston Coffee House, 610 Broadway, which also is owned by Davis.

However, the spaces will not be available for the fall Indoor Yard Sale.

“If we can’t find a new location, we can’t have a fall sale,” Sauer said. The historical society needs a space for about a week to ensure adequate time to set up everything and clean up after the sale, she said.

The sale raises several

thousand dollars a year for the society, which gets all its funding from memberships, donations and fundraisers, said Lorain Historical Society Executive Director Barb Piscopo. If the indoor yard sale ends, the Society will have to find another way to raise money and make up for the sale, she said.

The historical society sells donated items and some of them may be antiques. But Piscopo noted that donors and buyers should know the organization does not sell historic artifacts from its collection.

Any unsold items will be donated to Habitat for Humanity and Pass It On Ministries, Sauer said.

RICHARD PAYERCHIN — THE MORNING JOURNAL Dolores Brown of Euclid browses among the books for sale in the semiannual Lorain Historical Society Indoor Yard Sale. The sale continues May 5 and 6 at 668 Broadway, Lorain.