North Carolina woman’s kerosene lamp collection spans 55 years

MURFREESBORO, NC (WTKR) — In the quaint town of Murfreesboro, inside a historic home could be the perfect place to be if the lights go out.

“So, this is how you trim a wick, and then we light it, ahhhh,” says Trudy Gibson.

Every square inch of 82 -year-old Gibson’s Hertford County cottage is covered in lamps.

“This one is a king heart, and this one is the most expensive one we have in the house, and this one is the oldest and this is called an ‘eye winker,'” Gibson rattles off as we move about the rooms.

There is a corn lamp marked with a literal ear of corn, an owl lamp – too many to even see in one visit.

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