Katrina Stockton’s Sewing History Museum will open Friday in the Chapman-Noble House in historic Midtown. The museum’s collection of more than 400 sewing machines date from the mid-1800s and ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — On Saturday, the Sewing History Museum of Wichita celebrated its first anniversary. The museum held a fundraiser complete with all kinds of activities, from learning about ...

GREENFIELD — Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock County family who called her Mom and Grandma. Now, a piece of her ...

The beloved local seamstress and former owner of The Alterations Shoppe, Katrina Stockton, lived out a childhood dream while owning her shop and providing high-quality alterations for the community ...

Many of the stories that I share in this biweekly column are suggested by readers. These are related to a place or event I remember from growing up during the early baby boom years in the Berkshires.

For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection ...

HUNTINGTON -- When Sandy Skidmore uses a treadle sewing machine, it takes her back. She's a young girl in the 1940s, watching her mother and her aunt using the old-fashioned, non-electric machine.

Judy’s Sewing & Craft Museum in Morro Bay is closing and putting hundreds of its items, including antique sewing machines, on auction. The auction is being being hosted on the SLO Cal Estate Auctions ...