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Ohio’s Chairmaking Legacy: From Frontier Splint Seats to Factory-Built Rockers

A history of Ohio-made chairs, the makers behind them, and the woodworking techniques that helped turn a regional craft into an industry. A seat of...

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The modern generator is one of those machines that most people notice only when it stops working—or when the utility power goes out and...

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The 1960s may have been the greatest decade in American automotive imagination. Detroit was producing enormous V8s, fins were still hanging onto the back...

Hit the Open Road: Fun RV Parks Across the Southwest

Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas & Louisiana Adventures, Local Tips and How to Keep Your RV Rolling By City-Paper News Desk The American Southwest and South-Central states...

The Fortune of Fabrics

A 500-Year News History of Silk, Velvet, Cotton, Wool and Lace By City-Paper News Desk For much of the last 500 years, fabric was far more...

Early Cologne and Fragrance Companies that Turned Scent Into a Global Business

By City-Paper News Desk Before perfume became a department-store aisle filled with designer names, celebrity fragrances and elaborate advertising campaigns, scent was a much smaller...