Have you ever rummaged through your garage, stumbling upon dusty old tools that seem to have been forgotten for ages? You ...

Today I want to visit with you about a conversation we had with fellow docents. They shared with us that one of their friends visited the museum and was quite disappointed because all it had in it was ...

Members of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and the Early American Industries Association will be returning to Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills on Sunday, Aug. 6, to put on the 30th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jell-O molds, bread boxes, Pyrex bowls—these are the items your mother (or her mother) couldn't live without. You can find some of ...

It's hard to not find some level of appeal in vintage tools. Whether you find charm in their classic designs or see the value in chronicling the evolution of mankind's ingenuity, a vintage or antique ...

The predecessor to electric refrigerators, ice boxes kept food cool using large blocks of ice delivered by actual icemen (yes ...

Modern kitchens overflow with gadgets that promise to make cooking easier, faster, and better. Most of them end up shoved in the back of a drawer after a few uses, too specialized or too flimsy to ...

The fastest way to feel slower in the kitchen is to rely on the wrong tools. When you are chopping, stirring, and cleaning all at once, the difference between a smooth workflow and a chaotic one often ...

Brothers George and Henry Landis collected all sorts of tools that 18th- and 19th-century Pennsylvania German farmers used in the past. Their collection is the foundation of Landis Valley Village & ...

Lynn Dowd's cigarettes in a duck foot ashtray next to tools he uses at his workshop at Dowd's Vintage and Antique Tools in Garland. Lynn Dowd's blacksmith vise from 1791 at Dowd's Vintage and Antique ...

GLOVERSVILLE — Tools tell the story. That’s the way that Gloversville author Donald R. Williams sees it and he set out several years ago to record those stories. The fruits of his labor can be found ...