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Scantily clad secretary shows punching bag prowess; redeeming damaged paper money; painting on spider webs; Royal Basket Makers make frames for military shakos; an Old West memorabilia collector.

The first stop in this entry in the series is Woodbridge, New Jersey. Office secretary Doris DeGreen demonstrates her prowess with a punching bag, sometimes two punching bags simultaneously. She can keep them moving while blindfolded, while lying on her back, and can work one bag behind her using her elbows while working a second bag attached to the floor between her feet, using her lower legs. In the Treasury Department building in Washington, DC, Bertha Walker heads the currency redemption division. Currency that is burned, washed, or otherwise damaged will be redeemed if it can be identified. Stella Camden of Shenandoah, Iowa uses cobwebs instead of canvas to paint small pictures. In London, England, the Paxton family have been basket weavers to the royal family for many years. Finally. William Parker Lyon of Arcadia, California, collects vehicles and other memorabilia of America's Old West. He has constructed an entire town with the items he has assembled over the years. They include a locomotive and stagecoach, and everything that one would find at the frontier in a 19th century barbershop, newspaper office, drugstore, and saloon. The collection even includes a juke box that plays wax cylinder recordings.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>