Many of our ancestors arrived from overseas with little more than the clothes on their backs and a dream under their hat. The immigrants arrived from across the ocean carrying their worldly ...

If you’ve held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they’re worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

Childhood secrets are hiding in the dirt. Months after crops are harvested and fields stripped to bare brown, the slanted rays of morning or evening sunlight fire large circular patterns of crushed ...

Do kids still play marbles? If memory serves, we drew a big circle in the dirt and used a shooter marble to knock smaller marbles out of the circle. The phrase “play for keeps” comes from the practice ...

There are a million marbles for you to view at the one-of-a-kind marble museum in York. Lee Batterton is the owner of the marble museum. He says when he was a kid, he was a pretty good shot with ...

Bright light glittered off the shiny surface. It had rained hard the night before and the beautiful old marble, lost a half century ago from some young child's collection, was again exposed. Joining a ...

There may have been some questions in the past but I’d like to put those aside. I have not “lost all my marbles.” As a matter of fact, during the transition from Stately Willard Manor to Stately ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The term “ballot” is derived from the ...