John Higson Cover, Jr., 88, died last month. He invented the Taser, the nifty weapon that cops use to shoot electrical darts into belligerent miscre-ants and immobilize them without killing them (most ...

One of the board games in the Vigo County Historical Museum collection, Uncle Wiggily, caught my attention because I remember reading stories about the elderly gentleman rabbit in my childhood. The ...

A week ago Saturday, I visited Winterthur, the estate of a branch of the DuPont family. Those DuPonts really did things in a big way. The estate not only featured its own gardens, greenhouses, fishing ...

For many years, retiring public officials took some government office furniture with them when they left. Collectors like the pieces because the historic ownership adds to the prestige, value and aura ...