Avery Applegate reaches national audience on Sept. 7 FOX series
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Caitlin Forsha-crforsha@gmail.com
Hillsboro artist Avery Applegate may reach a national audience Wednesday, Sept. 7, as members of her family will be featured in a segment of an episode of “Buried Treasure,” a new series on FOX.
Applegate organized the show appearance on behalf of her cousin, Kathy (Willman) Cline, and her husband, Larry. Kathy Cline is the daughter of the late Dave and Norma Willman and lived in Hillsboro along with her parents as a child.
When the cousins visited last summer, Cline told Applegate about a relative of her husband’s, a former New York City and Franklin Lakes, N.J. gallery owner who had passed away and left behind two large homes full of art and antiques in New York and New Jersey.
According to Applegate, at Stephen Cline’s death, he was mostly living in his home in the Catskills in Ashland, N.Y. Nearly a year after his death, the Clines still had not managed to sort through Cline’s belongings, which is when Applegate got involved.
“My cousin and I talked, and she said ‘you would love being in these houses,’ since I was the art teacher [at Hillsboro High School],” Applegate said. “She said ‘I’ve got some pictures of the house if you want to see them,’ and I started looking at them and thought … this is good stuff.”
As Applegate was preparing to retire from the high school, she volunteered to help her cousin and her husband, the executor of Stephen Cline’s estate, as they sorted through two households of collectibles.
To start, Applegate called Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the famous New York and British auction houses.
“Both of them basically said ‘If they bring some things into our offices, we’d look at them,’ but they were in Florida,” Applegate said.
Undeterred, Applegate brought out her ace in the hole … Leigh and Leslie Keno.
Identical twins Leigh and Leslie Keno are famous for their work as appraisers on “Antiques Roadshow,” where they have appeared “almost from the beginning,” Applegate said.
“I called Leigh Keno. I’ve been to five ‘Antiques Roadshows,’ so I felt like I knew them and felt very comfortable [with them],” Applegate said. “They’re very personable guys and very caring, and he was willing to come to Florida.”
Leigh Keno met with Applegate and her cousin’s family in Florida, then Applegate and Keno set out to sort through the households, where they soon found that they had a large task at hand.
“I met him one time at the farmhouse, and he made it through two rooms of a 12-room house,” Applegate said.
They made plans to meet again soon … until the idea for a new TV show opened up.
The Keno twins pitched the idea for “Buried Treasure” to FOX. The show is set up much like popular antiques-hunting shows like “American Pickers,” but with a twist. The Kenos’ ultimate goal is to help people sell their antiques in order to better their lives, Applegate said.
“FOX bought it, and [Leigh] called me and said, ‘I gotta cut you off,’” Applegate said, adding that Leigh explained that they wanted to feature the Cline estate as part of an episode as Leslie had never seen the household and Leigh had only seen part of it.
Applegate said that she and the Kenos, along with the show’s production company ITV and producer Tim Miller of Big Chief Productions, were in close contact for months as they made arrangements to shoot the episode.
Applegate said that shooting the footage was a fun but uncomfortable experience.
The “Buried Treasure” episode was shot during the heat wave this summer, with 115-degree heat and no air conditioning, and Applegate said one of the worst parts was having to wear the same clothes for two days (unwashed) to make it look like the episode was shot in one day.
Applegate said that she was interviewed on camera several times and was with the Clines and Kenos throughout filming, but she isn’t sure how much she will be featured on the upcoming episode.
“It’s three days of filming edited down to 10 or 15 minutes,” Applegate said. “I’m not an integral part of the story. “I talked to the producer last week and he said, ‘I think you’re still in the very beginning.’”
Watching the filming process, however, was “amazing to watch,” with cars, tents, film crews and equipment sprawled across Cline’s 60 acres of land, Applegate said.
After two days of filming at the farm, Applegate, the Kenos and the Clines filmed a segment at Leigh Keno’s New York City office, where they discussed the value of the art and antiques the Kenos retrieved.
While the complete details of what the Keno brothers have taken from the Cline estate and their estimated worth are classified until the show’s air date, the Kenos will conduct a “huge” auction in Stanford, Conn. in September to sell some of the treasures they found.
Applegate said that if all goes well, this may not be the last time the nation sees the Cline estate.
“FOX TV bought four episodes [of “Buried Treasure] as filler,” Applegate said. “If it’s well received, they’ll pick it up. If they do, [the Kenos] want to do the other house in New Jersey.”
Applegate’s episode of “Buried Treasure” will air Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. on FOX.[[In-content Ad]]
Applegate organized the show appearance on behalf of her cousin, Kathy (Willman) Cline, and her husband, Larry. Kathy Cline is the daughter of the late Dave and Norma Willman and lived in Hillsboro along with her parents as a child.
When the cousins visited last summer, Cline told Applegate about a relative of her husband’s, a former New York City and Franklin Lakes, N.J. gallery owner who had passed away and left behind two large homes full of art and antiques in New York and New Jersey.
According to Applegate, at Stephen Cline’s death, he was mostly living in his home in the Catskills in Ashland, N.Y. Nearly a year after his death, the Clines still had not managed to sort through Cline’s belongings, which is when Applegate got involved.
“My cousin and I talked, and she said ‘you would love being in these houses,’ since I was the art teacher [at Hillsboro High School],” Applegate said. “She said ‘I’ve got some pictures of the house if you want to see them,’ and I started looking at them and thought … this is good stuff.”
As Applegate was preparing to retire from the high school, she volunteered to help her cousin and her husband, the executor of Stephen Cline’s estate, as they sorted through two households of collectibles.
To start, Applegate called Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the famous New York and British auction houses.
“Both of them basically said ‘If they bring some things into our offices, we’d look at them,’ but they were in Florida,” Applegate said.
Undeterred, Applegate brought out her ace in the hole … Leigh and Leslie Keno.
Identical twins Leigh and Leslie Keno are famous for their work as appraisers on “Antiques Roadshow,” where they have appeared “almost from the beginning,” Applegate said.
“I called Leigh Keno. I’ve been to five ‘Antiques Roadshows,’ so I felt like I knew them and felt very comfortable [with them],” Applegate said. “They’re very personable guys and very caring, and he was willing to come to Florida.”
Leigh Keno met with Applegate and her cousin’s family in Florida, then Applegate and Keno set out to sort through the households, where they soon found that they had a large task at hand.
“I met him one time at the farmhouse, and he made it through two rooms of a 12-room house,” Applegate said.
They made plans to meet again soon … until the idea for a new TV show opened up.
The Keno twins pitched the idea for “Buried Treasure” to FOX. The show is set up much like popular antiques-hunting shows like “American Pickers,” but with a twist. The Kenos’ ultimate goal is to help people sell their antiques in order to better their lives, Applegate said.
“FOX bought it, and [Leigh] called me and said, ‘I gotta cut you off,’” Applegate said, adding that Leigh explained that they wanted to feature the Cline estate as part of an episode as Leslie had never seen the household and Leigh had only seen part of it.
Applegate said that she and the Kenos, along with the show’s production company ITV and producer Tim Miller of Big Chief Productions, were in close contact for months as they made arrangements to shoot the episode.
Applegate said that shooting the footage was a fun but uncomfortable experience.
The “Buried Treasure” episode was shot during the heat wave this summer, with 115-degree heat and no air conditioning, and Applegate said one of the worst parts was having to wear the same clothes for two days (unwashed) to make it look like the episode was shot in one day.
Applegate said that she was interviewed on camera several times and was with the Clines and Kenos throughout filming, but she isn’t sure how much she will be featured on the upcoming episode.
“It’s three days of filming edited down to 10 or 15 minutes,” Applegate said. “I’m not an integral part of the story. “I talked to the producer last week and he said, ‘I think you’re still in the very beginning.’”
Watching the filming process, however, was “amazing to watch,” with cars, tents, film crews and equipment sprawled across Cline’s 60 acres of land, Applegate said.
After two days of filming at the farm, Applegate, the Kenos and the Clines filmed a segment at Leigh Keno’s New York City office, where they discussed the value of the art and antiques the Kenos retrieved.
While the complete details of what the Keno brothers have taken from the Cline estate and their estimated worth are classified until the show’s air date, the Kenos will conduct a “huge” auction in Stanford, Conn. in September to sell some of the treasures they found.
Applegate said that if all goes well, this may not be the last time the nation sees the Cline estate.
“FOX TV bought four episodes [of “Buried Treasure] as filler,” Applegate said. “If it’s well received, they’ll pick it up. If they do, [the Kenos] want to do the other house in New Jersey.”
Applegate’s episode of “Buried Treasure” will air Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. on FOX.[[In-content Ad]]