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 ...
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — From stamps to baseball cards and even coins, many of us had collections when we were growing up. While those collections may have been important to the individual who has ...
PLEASANTON — Perhaps the nicest thing about Cathy Malkovich’s political button collection is the opportunity to examine them, appreciate their history and be reminded that every election cycle ...
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 ...
Ann Tucker has been collecting buttons for more than 60 years. Recently, she has focused her attention on finding buttons that represent Shakespearean phrases or Bible verses. "When I was 10, I told ...
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 ...
SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) – Donald trump is the 45th man in American history to assume the highest office in the land and it took a contentious political race to get there. But as history shows, this is ...
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 ...
THOMASTON - To say Laurel Durso is passionate about buttons, which she considers little works of art, is an understatement. Durso, president of the Connecticut State Button Society, has amassed 20,000 ...
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 ...