If museum curators ever saw Dean Wilkerson's button room, they might well saw off the side of her yellow duplex and ship it straight to the Smithsonian. Wilkerson, a blue-eyed Southerner just shy of ...

If museum curators ever saw Dean Wilkerson's button room, they might well saw off the side of her yellow duplex and ship it straight to the Smithsonian. Wilkerson, a blue-eyed Southerner just shy of ...

When Elizabeth “Peg” Hewitt was nearing the end of her life in November 2010, a friend asked the 95-year-old Gurnee resident what was on her bucket list she hadn’t yet done. “I want to go to Tender ...

Martha Meyers didn’t plan to start a button collection. However, after attending several political events and service club conventions in the late 1960s and early ’70s, she found she had several ...