When Elizabeth “Peg” Hewitt was nearing the end of her life in November 2010, a friend asked the 95-year-old Gurnee resident what was on her bucket list she hadn’t yet done. “I want to go to Tender ...

THOMASTON - To say Laurel Durso is passionate about buttons, which she considers little works of art, is an understatement. Durso, president of the Connecticut State Button Society, has amassed 20,000 ...

If museum curators ever saw Dean Wilkerson's button room, they might well saw off the side of her yellow duplex and ship it straight to the Smithsonian. Wilkerson, a blue-eyed Southerner just shy of ...

Martha Meyers didn’t plan to start a button collection. However, after attending several political events and service club conventions in the late 1960s and early ’70s, she found she had several ...

If museum curators ever saw Dean Wilkerson's button room, they might well saw off the side of her yellow duplex and ship it straight to the Smithsonian. Wilkerson, a blue-eyed Southerner just shy of ...