Cherishable Items: Alabama Man Gets A Charge Out Of His Electric Insulator Collection

By David Macon

Electric insulators – those glass or ceramic things you may spot on power poles or power lines – may not look very collectable at first glance.

But for Roy Hale of Brewton, they are cherishable items.

“As I worked with the power company, I dealt with insulators. We used them on our lines,” Hale said. “Every once in a while, I’d find one that was kind of old, I’d pick it up and keep it.”After more than 40 years of picking them up as he found them, Hale got serious about collecting and now has hundreds of all colors, shapes, sizes and of various materials.

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