For just $3, shoppers will be able to fill a plastic bag with all the items it can hold at the Friends of the Holmes County Public Library’s annual book sale. The sale take place Friday and ...

This was a popular scene in many homes during the “Golden Age of Paper Dolls” (1930s-1950s). Throughout the 1900s, women’s and children’s magazines began including paper dolls in their issues.

Some dolls, like “Little Fanny,” accompanied didactic children’s stories. Others, printed in magazines, featured public figures and celebrities. The craft fell out of fashion around the 1960s.

The final garden-scene is created using an exquisitely designed nature-stuffed canvas (complete with ladybirds) and transports us to the lazy, endless days of childhood summers. We sit, captivated by ...

A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, they enticed us. Thin, frail, delicate, temporary with permanent effects.