His Life
In 1994, John Fiske and his wife Lisa Freeman established their own antiques shop - "Fiske & Freeman: Fine and Early Antiques'. Fiske is also the editor-in-chief of the New England Antiques Journal.
In 2000 he was granted Emeritus status as a Professor of Letters and Science/ Communication Arts after having taught at the University for 12 years (University of Wisconsin, 2000). He has since retired from academia, devoting himself full-time to antiques in Belmont, Vermont; Fiske and Freeman relocated to Ipswich, Massachusetts in 2008.
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