FLORENCE- "Antiques Roadshow" host and Florence native, Mark Walberg paid a visit to his hometown Friday to help in the grand opening celebration for an antique consignment store.
Walberg greeted customers and fans at Palmetto Peddlers on Hoffmeyer Rd. in Florence as the store's owners kicked off a weekend-long grand opening celebration.
The store offers a warehouse-sized array of antiques and collectibles from vendors across the Eastern Carolinas.
"We've assembled about 150 of some of the best vendors of antiques throughout the Southeast that have their shops here," said Richard Harrington, one of the owners of Palmetto Peddlers.
"We owe the success of the business, and it has been very successful, to the quality of vendors that we have and the quality of merchandise they bring through," he said.
Walberg is a graduate of West Florence High School and Francis Marion University and served as the host of several national television programs before landing on PBS's hit program, "Antiques Roadshow."
"I really just came to support them(the Palmetto Peddler owners) in the great business...and actually, it's any excuse to come back home," Walberg said.
"I'm just grateful to be doing 'Antiques Roadshow' and it's interesting that they should have an antiques business and I get to kind of help them out and support them as well," he said.
In addition to greeting customers at the business, Walberg also signed copies of the newest "Antiques Roadshow" book, for which he penned the foreword.
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