Uncle Henry's is an American online and printed classified advertisements repository, founded by Henry Faller in Rockland, Maine, and printed in Augusta, Maine.[1][2]
Established in 1969, Uncle Henry's helps people buy, sell, swap or trade a variety of items. Its tagline is Most Anything Under the Sun. It is published weekly on Thursdays and is priced at $2.00 for the printed edition. In addition to Maine, the printed version is available in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Brunswick, Canada (where it is $2.25). Digital "satellite" versions are available for download in Georgia and Indiana. Adverts are limited to thirty words.
A radio show, named Talkin' Deals, is broadcast on Saturdays via streaming and on the Maine radio stations WLOB, WBAN, WEZR and WPNO.[3]
Uncle Henry's was the inspiration for the reality television programme Down East Dickering, on which it is referred to as the bible.[4]
Founder
Henry Conrad Faller (August 14 1927 – March 21 2012) was born in Newark, New Jersey,[5] the son of William and Cecilia. He married Helen Sonnenberg in 1952, and the couple moved to Maine to live and raise their family.[5] The couple started their own printing establishment in Rockland, Maine, in 1968. He printed the first edition of Uncle Henry's the following year.[5]
He retired in 1989 and died, after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, in 2012, aged 84.[5]
References
- ↑ "Reality show ‘Down East Dickering’ has bargains, but nobody from Down East" - Bangor Daily News, April 26 2014
- ↑ "Maine fans of ‘Down East Dickering’ working to rescue reality show from scrap heap" - Portland Press Herald, 30 April 2015
- ↑ Uncle Henry's Talkin' Deals
- ↑ Down East Dickering at History.com
- 1 2 3 4 In Memory of Henry Conrad Faller - Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home