I have a small basket full of antique clay marbles that I love and so do my granddaughters. It’s the uneven shapes and the colors — dark-blue cobalt, brown or red glazes — that have attracted me to ...

If you’ve held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they’re worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

Many of our ancestors arrived from overseas with little more than the clothes on their backs and a dream under their hat. The immigrants arrived from across the ocean carrying their worldly ...

Bright light glittered off the shiny surface. It had rained hard the night before and the beautiful old marble, lost a half century ago from some young child's collection, was again exposed. Joining a ...

Do kids still play marbles? If memory serves, we drew a big circle in the dirt and used a shooter marble to knock smaller marbles out of the circle. The phrase “play for keeps” comes from the practice ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I used to be a crack shot at pitch (marbles) ...

Two months ago, Judge Preston Grissom gave a talk to the Norfolk County Historical Society about the past archeological digs around the Great Bridge canal. In his presentation he talked about the ...

There may have been some questions in the past but I’d like to put those aside. I have not “lost all my marbles.” As a matter of fact, during the transition from Stately Willard Manor to Stately ...

There are a million marbles for you to view at the one-of-a-kind marble museum in York. Lee Batterton is the owner of the marble museum. He says when he was a kid, he was a pretty good shot with ...

Childhood secrets are hiding in the dirt. Months after crops are harvested and fields stripped to bare brown, the slanted rays of morning or evening sunlight fire large circular patterns of crushed ...