I have a small basket full of antique clay marbles that I love and so do my granddaughters. It’s the uneven shapes and the colors — dark-blue cobalt, brown or red glazes — that have attracted me to ...
If you’ve held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they’re worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...
Many of our ancestors arrived from overseas with little more than the clothes on their backs and a dream under their hat. The immigrants arrived from across the ocean carrying their worldly ...
Given all the “yee haw!” that’s gone on in the White House since Texan George W. Bush took office in the year 2000, a roundup seems quite appropriate, and Rik Clay of 20/08 Productions in Boulder, is ...
Bright light glittered off the shiny surface. It had rained hard the night before and the beautiful old marble, lost a half century ago from some young child's collection, was again exposed. Joining a ...
You can walk into the Buckeye Marble Show on Saturday for free, which is a very nice price, but you'll need $1,000 if you want to leave with a rare vintage purple-and-white horizontal swirled Navarre ...
In early spring the ground in Clay County, Tennessee is too wet to plow, and too wet to play marbles. in late fall the frosty nights are too cold for the game, and besides, tobacco is in need of ...
Two months ago, Judge Preston Grissom gave a talk to the Norfolk County Historical Society about the past archeological digs around the Great Bridge canal. In his presentation he talked about the ...
Childhood secrets are hiding in the dirt. Months after crops are harvested and fields stripped to bare brown, the slanted rays of morning or evening sunlight fire large circular patterns of crushed ...
You can walk into the Buckeye Marble Show on Saturday for free, which is a very nice price, but you'll need $1,000 if you want to leave with a rare vintage purple-and-white horizontal swirled Navarre ...