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WORTH 1000 WORDS

Vintage cameras come with stories to tell By Rusty Rae I grew up in a family of photographers. Both my mother and father went to the Ray...

WHEN TO WALK

How-tos given for collecting costume jewelry Those just starting to collect costumer jewelry will appreciate the new publication of...

LOVE ENGRAVED

Handmade coin tokens once professed love The original valentine “love tokens” were ordinary silver coins. A lover would grind smooth one...

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...

FROM THE JAR TO THE PANTRY

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

VINYL REVIEWS

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

UTENSIL FOR THE 'OL PUSHBROOM

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

A STRANGE AND PRECIOUS INHERITANCE

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...

HOLD 'N' STRIKE

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,...