A shiny red and white plastic Santa. Waving, riding on a sleigh, or simply standing there – they were all cute back in the middle of the 20th century. They’re very collectible today.  The sensational plastic Santa was the delight of the 1950s decade and even much of the 1960s during the Christmas season. The jolly elf of that particular […]

By Robert Reed  Part of the enduring Christmas season has always been the music. For decades much of it was captured on phonograph records and colorful long playing albums. Today many of those well-packaged Yule tunes are sounding very collectible.  “In the past few years the growth of Christmas music has been obvious,” wrote author Tim Neely in the 1997 […]

 We are saddened to learn that our friend Linda Louise Woods Gabitzsch Lancaster died October 17, 2022, at home in the arms of her husband following a sudden heart attack.  Linda was born March 4, 1948, to Roger Louis and Dolly (Best) Woods in Tucson, Ariz. She was raised in Phoenix and graduated in the top 2 percent of her […]

By Barry Krause  The Navaho developed blanket weaving skills to the highest degree of excellence with their beautiful work with sheep’s wool in the historic period after contact with European immigrants.  Wool was unknown to American Indians in Arizona and New Mexico until the Spaniards brought sheep there in the 16th century. The Pueblo tribes did their best with weaving […]

Excerpted From 60 Minutes, November 20, 2022  The 2022 World Cup kicked off on Nov. 20 in Qatar, and while you’ll hear all manner of “Oles” and “Allezs” over the next four weeks, this might be the event’s ultimate soundtrack: got, got, need. It’s not the scalpers hawking tickets, it’s the refrain of fans sifting through packs of World Cup […]