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ANALOG AND THEN SOME

The rejuvenated allure of the fountain pen By KATHERINE ROTH The Associated Press In an age of screens and keyboarding, when kids hardly...

Marshmallows started as candy A marshmallow was originally produced from a European plant belonging to the mallow family. The plant had...

By Ossie Bladine “Into the Purple Valley” 1972 / Reprise Produced by Jim Dickinson, Van Dyke Parks and Lenny Waronker “Into the Purple...

Eating with a mustache needed special spoon When mustaches were popular, which in the United States was primarily between the Civil War...

By STARLA POINTER When handyman Robert Walker began helping Richard and Ruth Miller with the upkeep on their house, he had no idea what a...

A ‘safe’ place for matches was a necessity By Donna Miller Matches as we know them today did not exist until the 19th century. The term,...