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 ...

“Button, button who has the button,” is a parlor game many of us played as children. The game goes back to Colonial times when every home had a button, and in those days a button was to be treasured.

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 ...

The American Political Items Collectors (APIC) is a group of history buffs and fans of the political process who treasure the items of the past. Every year in Northeast Ohio APIC gathers for its "Big ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...