Join us as we spend an afternoon with Bill and Annette Ivey, embracing their mutual passion as collectors of North Carolina decorative arts. Historian, author, preservationist and life-long North Carolinian, Bill Ivey has always had the collector’s eye. “I’ve always had the collector’s instinct,” explains Bill, “I collected…lodge patches when I was a boy scout…and I found then that I love to collect.” Collecting has shaped Bill and Annette’s life journey together. “We’ve done a lot of things that we wouldn’t have done and gone a lot of places [that we wouldn’t have gone], if we didn’t collect,” states Annette.