John and Terry Shepard invite you to their Gilbert wooden toy shop, 0 Bar 9, which will hold an open house 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Peruse the pull-toy ducks or elegant rocking horses while you ...

Christmas may be a few months away, but there is one man in Gilbert working to build handmade, wooden toys by the holidays. “I still believe there is a place for heirloom toys,” said John Shepard, a ...

John Shepard loves his old school version of Santa’s workshop. “It smells good, it feels good.” “It” is wood, specifically pine. That’s what Shepard uses inside his Gilbert workshop to create rocking ...

Young A.C. Gilbert came east from Oregon to Yale and New Haven in 1904 a century ago and he s still discussed here. The December edition of the magazine "Antique Toy World" celebrates the city s ...

Before video games and robotics competitions, toys were much simpler: girls got dolls; boys got model trains and bicycles. Toys that promoted learning and experimentation were rare until one inventor, ...