More than $3.7 million was raised Friday in the first of several auctions to sell the Boy Scouts of America art collection, which had been housed at Medici Museum of Art in Howland from 2020 until earlier this year.

Five Norman Rockwell works of art go up for auction Friday with the proceeds going to compensate thousands of survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Works from the Boy Scouts of America's art collection, including some paintings by Norman Rockwell, will go up for auction to help compensate tens of thousands of people, mainly men, who were sexually abused while in scouting.