The humble washing machine is an appliance that few of us are truly passionate about. They’re expected to come into our lives and serve faithfully, with a minimum of fuss. In the good old days, it was ...

I was smitten the first time I laid eyes on the round, pink Kenmore Vista-Matic washing machine. And she was half off! Because the local antique shop she was in was moving, I thought I could probably ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of my pet peeves is how we so casually use the term “unbelievable!” as the catch-all for such amazing accomplishments as an NBA shooting guard draining ...

You just never know what you’ll find in traveling the Eastern Shore. Just last week, I saw something that made me laugh. Against an outbuilding, on a farm in Wicomico County, I discovered a vintage ...

We have all seen thousands of advertisements yet we remember very few. However one advertisement made such an enormous impression on me, fifty years ago, that I still remember it clearly. It was an ...

His first antique washing machine was a gift from Barbara's aunt, an old hand-operated Rue model given to the aunt by a nearby Nebraska farmer in 1920. "I had no inclination to collect washing ...