Flooded residents wed at beloved Dunkin' Donuts
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HALLSTEAD - What a cup of black coffee has joined together let no natural disaster tear apart.
A Great Bend couple, united by their love of Dunkin' Donuts, was married Saturday morning at the Hallstead branch of the restaurant chain less than two months after their home and their favorite coffee spot were devastated by floods.
Roger and Elizabeth Allard exchanged vows and rings during the bustling breakfast rush in the Hallstead Plaza. Along with about 50 family members and friends, witnesses to the union included two dancing mascots dressed as a plush coffee cup and a frosted doughnut. Customers, warned of the festivities by a hand-drawn sign with rainbow hearts taped to the door, tiptoed in to buy bagels.
"They wanted the store open, operating as usual," franchise owner Ben Vanderlinde said. "The sounds of Dunkin' Donuts operating in the background, that was their wedding music."
Mr. and Mrs. Allard met four years ago when the former Ms. Elizabeth Rider was working at a truck stop and Mr. Allard came in with a cup of Dunkin' Donuts coffee.
Source: Scranton Times-Tribune
Antiques & Collectibles: 'Haunted antiques' have fascinating stories
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We have heard many stories about "haunted antiques" through the years, and we often ask readers to send us their stories. Clocks seem to be the most likely to be haunted.
One reader's mother bought a modern sunburst wall clock in 1952. It stayed on the kitchen wall. In 1982 the reader's father died, and in 1992 her mother began dating. Whenever the boyfriend came over, the clock would make a "grunting" noise.
According to the reader, "Mother married and her new husband asked that the clock be thrown out, but I put it in the attic. In 2006 they divorced and I brought the clock into the kitchen. It is quiet now. Mother said she should have listened to the clock."
Several families reported having wind-up clocks that started ticking or chiming when family members got together weeks after a funeral. But the strangest story we heard was about an antique glass necklace one reader inherited from her husband's family.
She told us that whenever she wore the necklace, she had an accident involving water -- a glass tipped over, a vase broke, a drink was spilled on her, she even fell in a pool. Then one day her mother-in-law commented that it was nice to see her wearing her great-aunt's necklace. Did she know her aunt was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic?
Source: Ct Post
