Once upon a time, before Jo picked up a needle and thread, she was a scientist who specialized in microbiology. Although that qualification isn’t particularly useful in her day-to-day life now, she is ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

Kate Hewitt created a small gift for John Reynolds. She wanted her beau to have a special keepsake to carry with him when he went to war. Maj. Gen. John Fulton Reynolds was shot and died on the ...

Many couples want to find special ways to commemorate all the aspects of their wedding festivities. And it’s often the smallest details that make the biggest impact — like a set of resin bookends with ...

These handkerchiefs, known as “bordados” in Spanish, were embroidered by Utah Sisters of the Holy Cross and associates of their congregation to commemorate victims of the drug war with Mexico, those ...