Search around TikTok, and you'll see endless comments and videos about buttons. It's become a meme, really. Many people, for ...

Towards the end of 2025, a TikTok from user @hush.bug went viral. Set to audio from The Devil Wears Prada and captioned “How ...

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 ...

Syliva Whiten’s husband, Bob Whiten, has his own, small collection of buttons from his firefighter parade coat. He has served with the Charleroi Fire Department for 60 years. Sylvia Whiten keeps her ...

“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.

Trays of buttons bequeathed by Bertha Beam are on display at the Allen County Museum. Beam, who began collecting buttons as a 5-year-old in the 1880s, had amassed about 12,000 of them by 1948 and was ...

The button that started Carl Fisher's collection of thousands was a gift. Nearly 20 years ago, Fisher's aunt gave him a simple red button with the name "MORSE" in white lettering. It dated from 1972, ...

! We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. While many of us have memories of sorting through our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ted Hake has spent most of his life chasing after "old stuff." A kid from York, Pennsylvania, Hake used to follow his father — a dedicated bird watcher — on trips around North America, where the son ...