Antiques Road Show

Do any of you watch this?

I typically change the channel when it comes on. But a few times I catch myself drawn in by the story of what's being appraised.

Some of the items are really neat and tell a good story. I caught an episode where an old british merchant navy uniform was found by a couple moving in to a Victorian era home they inherited. They found some paperwork with it including a document listing all the ports of call of some old ship form the mid 1800's.

Apparently this guy is orphaned in England at something like 12 yrs old, joins the merchant fleet, sails around Africa, India, SOuth America, etc. Get's to Canada before Dominion and gets discharged (apparently that's where he'd get this paper... to prove he was a legit sailor). He's 20 something and the people go on to talk about how he become a Great Lakes sailor/officer, he may have helped smuggle Confederate soldiers/sympathizers back and forth to and from the US during the civil war, but apoparently ran cargo around.
He marries a lady in Toronto, has a kid, and dies of some complicatin of a fever he had while a younger man. Died at something like 30 or 40.

BTW - I just got home and turned on the TV - Antiques Roadshow is on - this is how it got on my mind. But this sailor stuff was from a while ago.

But isn't that just a cool story? Imagine... This guy, 200 years ago, saw amazing parts of the world, while they were still TRULY different and all the while, he's likely just working his ass off trying to keep out of trouble and keep from getting sick, etc. Do you think this person would have known just what he was experiencing? That 200+ years later people might possibly be looking at his old uniform and ship's "list of ports of call" (there must be a correct term for that) as something of value.

CRAZY!!!!

Anyway - I'm sorting my summer clothes to storage and pulling out the winter and came across my old pair of track spikes. What will be going on with them in 200 years if I hold on to them?
Too much work - I'm tossing them.