FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Three Rivers Festival makes a new button every year. The pin can get you discounts on some tickets around the festival, but, for some, they mean a lot more. Over the ...

Alan Rosenzweig started collecting buttons 50 years ago when he was just 12 years old as a competition with his friend Bobby. Bobby got out to the early lead with 70 buttons to Rosenzweig’s 50, but ...

FORTVILLE — Pat Cooper’s dining room table is covered with buttons. Cards and cards of buttons — each about the size of a piece of notebook paper, and each with a specific theme. One card held buttons ...

"Button Button, who's got the button?" Today, it's the collector. The hobby is widespread among artisans, fashion designers, crafts people and especially antique button buffs. Button collecting first ...

Many people are familiar with a grandmother’s button collection, often kept in a glass jar or metal tin. The buttons may have been left over from a sewing project or were cut from a worn piece of ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - As speakers deliver their messages at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Paul Bengston’s eyes are drawn elsewhere on his TV screen. “That’s all I’m looking at,” ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A rich hoard of family history might be hidden in Mason jars and cookie tins that are full of buttons. They might include buttons from wedding gowns, uniforms or the dress a child wore ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – As we celebrate opening day of Riverfest in Wichita, two sisters are working to continue their late grandpa’s legacy by completing his Riverfest button collection. The buttons ...

They're not just buttons. They're petite capsules of history, art, culture and craftsmanship, as well as purely delightful — simultaneously functional — decoration. And they're coming to Erie County.

Plenty of treasures are discovered in the attics of old homes in the Columbia neighborhood. For the descendants of Nellie Eastwood, it is an impressive button collection. Eastwood’s relatives recently ...