The 19th Century brewery is gone, and so is the zither factory that began production at the close of the Civil War. But in the old brick building near the gently sloping southern bank of the Missouri ...

Phil Morgan delights in showing visitors around the oldest corn cob pipe factory in the world — the 150-year-old Missouri Meerschaum Company in Washington, Missouri. “I mean, it's a corn cob pipe, so ...

Question: I hope you will be able to shed some light on this carved object discovered among my late grandmother's things. It is 2 inches long, 2½ inches wide and not very heavy. Its case seems to be ...