While I was at San Marcos I ate most of my meals in the hotel restaurant. I was asked to come to teach a class on accelerated marketing via Google and lead a round table on social media at the Texas Auctioneers Association’s meeting in the town of San Marcos, Texas. I was asked after the class to come help with other classes, then I started offering to teach classes to state auctioneers associations. I joined the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and attended many classes, at one of these classes I shared some information on Google marketing with one the instructors who wound up asking me to take over the class for the next 1/2 hour to share the information with the class. Years passed, and I went from selling on eBay to conducting estate sales, to conducting auctions. It is a special place, if you ever get the chance to visit, by all means do. Joe is really Jospeh Desloge Jr.) donated the park after spending years over 17 years to acquire the properties to make the park, and then spent more time donating money to improve the park. The name Shut-Ins comes form a formation of beautiful granite stone that is worn smooth by the currents of the black river as it is shut-in by the rocks. Joe’s father (Joseph Desloge Sr.
Johnson’s Shut-Ins is named after the Johnson family who once owned the property and who are buried in a small cemetery that is located on the park grounds. Joe and I became friends, and over the years I learned that there was a log cabin somewhere on the property that the Desloge family used to go to that was insulated by whoever built it by stuffing newspaper in the walls. Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park from the Missouri Dept. Very few people knew that the Desloges had donated the park, so Joe was very surprised that I knew they were involved at all. He asked my why, and I said, “I live less than 3 miles from your house, and your family donated Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park, it is my favorite place in the entire state, I have always wanted to meet one the Desloges so I could say thank you, so thank you”. I said, “Desloge, let me shake your hand”. As he walked up to the counter I heard the clerk say, “good morning Mr. The door opened up a half and hour later and I was worn out, I felt as if this little old man was interrogating me, he was nice but he was intense. He was peppering me with questions, who I was, what I had in the packages, how did I get started on eBay, what did I know about computers.
#JOHNSONS SHUT IN FULL#
I had a very full dolly and the old man was very curious about this.
My wife and I were selling a lot of items on eBay then and I was making a run to the post office to put some of them in the mail.
He struck up a conversation with me about all the packages I had on my dolly. One morning back in 1999 I found myself standing outside my local post office with an older man who was wearing a olive drab sweater kaki pants and a belt that looked like it was made from hemp that hung down from his waist.
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