By Robert Reed Toys have come and gone over the decades just as have the children that once delighted with. However some toys, both famous and not so famous, remain a delightful and enduring part of history. They may have been as memorable as Arcade’s fleet of 20th century toy vehicles or as obscure as Britain’s moving picture toy Zeotrope […]

By Mary Sikora From the early 1600s our ancestors lived under british rule. they fought with the French. they fought with the Indians. And they fought the same fights all over again. Dur- ing all that time, they owed their allegiance to Great britain . . . until the American revolution, that is. then the ties frayed quickly. In 1804, […]

By Joan l. Huegel Home from an auction one night, my husband grumbled as he struggled with three big boxes of books I bought. I bid on the books without knowing what they were, but I figured if I ended up with only two or three books that I liked and would keep, my dollar would have been well spent. […]