The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the week May 15-21, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee County Historical Museum’s newspaper archives. Read the full 100 ...

It relied on limited concept art, data, and technology. And it often sold a fantasy that didn’t accurately represent the game inside the box. Yet the lack of those things led to thousands of ...

The World’s Longest-Running Cigar Box Guitar Festival will return for its 21st year beginning May 30. Special guests include Grammy-winner Gary Nichols and the FAME Gang. All proceeds from this ...

Unlike big-box retailers ... necessity to art form, each with its own personality. Photo credit: Khadijah Daniels You might find a 1940s typewriter next to a collection of hand-carved wooden bears ...

Jim Lewin, the longtime owner of the York Emporium in downtown York City, died Tuesday. Lewin, 70, along with his wife, Pam, owned the emporium for almost 20 years until he sold the business and ...

Why not put my house, my parlor, behind this plot, instead of behind that meager assemblage of curiosities, that poor apology for a Nature and Art, which I call my front yard? It is an effort to ...

These cigar box guitars are a tale of its own and just showcases the history of Southern blues, and how essential the art of music was in the South or better yet still is." Dupre said it can be ...

THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING. BUT FOR EDDIE NISHIOKA, IT’S ALL IN A DAY’S WORK.

Box art by Christa Maiwald of Springs. COURTESY THE ARTIST Box art by Giancarlo Impiglia of Bridgehampton. COURTESY THE ARTIST Box art by Marcia Preveti for the 2024 auction. COURTESY THE ARTIST ...

He makes cigar box guitars and she plays them ... What Allen makes today is essentially functional folk art. They have visual appeal from the graphics found on many of the repurposed materials ...

At 6 years old, even Becky Roberts’ son is able to recognize that the art his mom creates is outside ... Roberts is an assemblage artist, but if she tells people that, most don’t know what ...