FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Three Rivers Festival makes a new button every year. The pin can get you discounts on some tickets around the festival, but, for some, they mean a lot more. Over the ...

! We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. While many of us have memories of sorting through our ...

Syliva Whiten’s husband, Bob Whiten, has his own, small collection of buttons from his firefighter parade coat. He has served with the Charleroi Fire Department for 60 years. Sylvia Whiten keeps her ...

The button that started Carl Fisher's collection of thousands was a gift. Nearly 20 years ago, Fisher's aunt gave him a simple red button with the name "MORSE" in white lettering. It dated from 1972, ...

Most people think of buttons as items used to secure clothing, but for Lillian Irvin, they're collector's items.Irvin, also known as "The Button Lady," has been giving presentations on the history of ...

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 ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Peggy Mathes still has the first button she ever collected a trapezoid-shaped piece made of bakelite, trimmed with a row of rhinestones. "It was in 1988," Mathes said. "I was in an ...

Meadows Place resident Jeannette Faris likes them round or square, thick or thin, beautiful or ugly, and now she's sharing them with the community at Mamie George Branch library, 320 Dulles in ...

The staircase in Marie Petry's farm home in rural Clay County is adorned with an assortment of framed groupings of mounted buttons. The array is a tiny portion of the 3,000 to 5,000 buttons Petry has ...

SEDALIA, Mo. -- They can be crafted from wood, steel, glass, plastic, ivory, bread dough and even chicken skin. Most people probably don't think of those items as materials for buttons, but like ...

Ted Hake has spent most of his life chasing after "old stuff." A kid from York, Pennsylvania, Hake used to follow his father — a dedicated bird watcher — on trips around North America, where the son ...