Members of the Early American Industries Association (EAIA) and the Mid-West Tools Collectors Association (M-WTCA) will be holding their 31st annual Antique Tool Show & Sale at the Garfield Farm ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. Gary Pietz’s grandparents settled on the Four Mound Prairie of Nine Mile ...

If sheep are set on their rumps, the animals become very calm and are easier to shear. The 1875 patent for this sheep-shearing chair says, “The sheep, having been placed on the seat in the position ...

Merrill Sheets lives on a property called Bittersweet Farms in Delaware Township. The name is especially apropos right now. Sheets, known by friends as "Pinky," is a 76-year-old retired farmer who ...

SHEFFIELD -- A spoon bit brace, wooden shovel, mud shoes for horses; these were a few of Milt Barnum's favorite things. For nearly 50 years, the late Sheffield native collected nearly 1,000 kitchen ...

Do you know what this mystery tool, seen below, also from the collection of Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, was used for? Landis Valley Museum Curator Jennifer Royer says the whole tool is 5 ...

Inman Farm Heritage Days, which will host its 28th annual show on Sept. 19-21 at Minter’s Farm in south Fayette County, is best known for its displays ...

LONGMONT, Colo.—Dick von Bernuth doesn’t look like a museum curator. The 73-year-old retired civil engineer wears a faded beige baseball cap and well-worn cowboy boots. He tucks a blue polo shirt into ...

Over the years, I’ve collected a lot of different kinds of gardening tools. One of my most unusual tools has to be my hand-held rotary hoe. The garden rotary hoe I have has a long handle so I can ...