A peek inside the Krasneskys' home, which they chronicle on their Facebook page, Krasnesky Manor For Wayward Cats.It was originally listed for $750,000. We made an offer that was pretty close to my top dollar, but it turned out there were other families that were interested. We got into a bidding thing.
I took all the stuff down and found out that the cane was a presentation cane that was given to a Union officer, probably after the Civil War, and it had his regiments on the gold cap on the cane. The box was full of ribbons from 1930s equestrian events. We found the descendant of the person who owned the cane.
I was telling the kids about it when they were visiting for Thanksgiving. They wanted to see, so I took them up to the attic. One of my kids was like,"What about this loose floorboard right next to it?" And I pulled it out and started poking down into the insulation and there was an interesting sound. It was a little paper bag of old copper coins.
Thad and Robin's daughter, Rachel, explores the attic . The turquoise ring and gold pendant they found .We got up from the dinner table, went up the stairs, went up the other stairs to the ballroom, pulled the access panel off, climbed back there, and what do you know,