John Clark continues to make room – make that, a room – for politics. Behold the 10x10 space off the living room of his Tallahassee home, where he keeps nearly two centuries of presidential campaigns ...
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 ...
If museum curators ever saw Dean Wilkerson's button room, they might well saw off the side of her yellow duplex and ship it straight to the Smithsonian. Wilkerson, a blue-eyed Southerner just shy of ...
When Elizabeth “Peg” Hewitt was nearing the end of her life in November 2010, a friend asked the 95-year-old Gurnee resident what was on her bucket list she hadn’t yet done. “I want to go to Tender ...
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 ...
Martha Meyers didn’t plan to start a button collection. However, after attending several political events and service club conventions in the late 1960s and early ’70s, she found she had several ...
If museum curators ever saw Dean Wilkerson's button room, they might well saw off the side of her yellow duplex and ship it straight to the Smithsonian. Wilkerson, a blue-eyed Southerner just shy of ...