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New Haven, IN 46774
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Historic Hillsdale
Auction
& Flea Market
Story
"SALE BARN"
as seen on WGTE
Andrew J Adams
"Andy Adams"
1884 - 1963
founder of the "Sale Barn"
The Saturday Sale Barn auction was a Mecca for the area Farmers in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana
Andy's 1st love was horses and he bagan the sale barn selling horses by the thousands at the Sale barn Satruday Auctions. 
Legend says that Roy Rogers bought Trigger at an Andy Adams Sale Barn Auction.
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Sale Barn
A captivating glimpse into one of the longest-running auction houses in the country, SALE BARN captures the hometown-auction held weekly at the fairgrounds in Hillsdale, Michigan. This century-old, Midwestern, cultural tradition is proof that the practice of farm country auctions has not completely vanished from the rural social landscape.
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KEN FRECKER
~ AUCTIONEER AND CEO OF KEN FRECKER AUCTIONEERS INC.
WHO IS KEN FRECKER? KEN IS A MAN WHO SAW A PART OF HISTORY IN 1993 THAT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY ANDY ADAMS BACK IN THE EARLY 1900'S AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE IT END.
KEN TOOK WHAT HAS BEEN A PART OF A COMMUNITY FOR OVER 100 YEARS AND MOVED IT FORWARD EVEN FARTHER THAN ANDY ADAMS AND BILL EWING HAD THROUGH THE DECADES THEY RAN IT.
TODAY IT CONTINUES THANKS TO KEN WHO TOOK APART OF AMERICANA UNDER HIS WING AND CONTINUES TO GROW IT MORE EACH AUCTION!
COME SPEND THE DAY AT THE HISTORIC HILLSDALE AUCTION & FLEA MARKET IN HILLSDALE MICHIGAN AT THE FAIRGROUNDS 115 S BROAD STREET YOU WILL SEEIT'S WHERE FRIENDS MEET EVERY SATURDAY....COME AS A GUEST LEAVE AS A FRIEND.
YOU WILL FEEL APART OF THE HISTORY SINCE IT BEGAN!
The Filmmakers -
Sale Barn
Angel Vasquez Producer/Cinematographer/Educator
Angel Vasquez (pictured) is nationally recognized as a Princess Grace Award Alumnus, and award-winning producer whose programming credits include PBS American Masters’ Series, Lionsgate Films, and
his most recent social-issue documentary producer credits for “Crooked Beauty”, about
reshaping mental stigmas advocating a new healing culture and political model for
living; and “Turning Point”, a film about the current public school system in jeopardy. Vasquez’s films have screened internationally including film festivals in Australia and Korea. He is a visiting producer at WGTE-Public Media in Toledo, Ohio, and produces film and TV content in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Michigan.
Brooke Dagnan, Director/Producer/Educator
Brooke Dagnan (not pictured) has worked as a publications photographer, video designer, and film editor in both the creative and corporate worlds. Her creative work focuses on documentary film production and interactive new media. Recent projects include, serving as assistant editor of Turning Point, a documentary chronicling the lives of students at Waite High School in East Toledo, and The PIX Film Project an interactive, experimental film kiosk invited to show at two international conferences—Re:New 2008, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and at the International Computer Music Conference in Belfast, Ireland. Brooke serves on the Programming Committee for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and is the Director of Film Education at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
The Place -
Sale Barn
Hillsdale is a city in the state of Michigan. The village of Hillsdale was incorporated in 1847 and received its charter as a city in 1869. It is the county seat of Hillsdale County, and is run as a council-manager government. The city is situated mostly within Hillsdale Township, but is a municipality governed independently of the township.
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The People - Sale Barn
A film about people and social behavior, SALE BARN follows Ken, the auction owner; Barney, a 90 year-old hay auctioneer; Greg a bike enthusiast who donates his bikes to charity; and Rufino “the Chicken Man”, who resells the Sale Barn chickens he buys at flea markets in metro Detroit.
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MARTIN "BARNEY" BARNHART
HAY AUCTIONEER
FOR OVER 60 YEARS
COME MEET BARNEY AT 11AM STILL SELLING HAY TODAY!
A TREASURE TO BEHOLD!
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ONE OF THE BIKES Greg a bike enthusiast buys at the auction and fixes up and then donates to charity
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Rufino “the Chicken Man”, who resells the Sale Barn chickens he buys at flea markets in metro Detroit.
620 W Lincoln Hwy
New Haven, IN 46774
ph: 2607487744
alt: 1.800.359.5194
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