I’ll bet at first glance of the title of this month’s column some of you are thinking about buttons and bows as in useful items for garment making and adornment. Perhaps others are thinking of the ...

Trays of buttons bequeathed by Bertha Beam are on display at the Allen County Museum. Beam, who began collecting buttons as a 5-year-old in the 1880s, had amassed about 12,000 of them by 1948 and was ...

Audrey McKinley shows the mixed display of Ada Preim's buttons, most categorized and colorized on cards as well as some of her own collection of buttons. Her interest in button collecting came about ...

MADISON, Wis. — It’s Homecoming Week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a week stepped in traditions of block parties, pep rallies, pink flamingoes on Bascom Hill and Homecoming buttons. It’s ...

In a neighborhood dominated by Bloomingdales and other big retail stores, there is one shop around the corner on East 62nd Street that defines a different type of high-end shopping. The shop Tender ...

When I was a young child, many decades ago, I would visit my nana here in Concord. She was a gifted seamstress who was always working on different projects and who utilized her craft to engage me at ...

WATERBURY, Conn., Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mattatuck Museum is preparing to debut Beau McCall: Buttons On!, the first-ever retrospective of the artist Beau McCall, opening on October 12, 2025, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have a jar full of spare buttons you are wondering what to do with? With their abundance of sizes, materials, and varieties, these small ...

HOUSTON – Inside a quiet room at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, you can see the evolution of American politics right before your very eyes. SEE ALSO: Archives of the ...

As a young stockbroker in New York City during the 1960s, a chance encounter with a political canvasser changed Julius "Desey" Desenberg's life. The canvasser, working for a mayoral candidate, pinned ...