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Canadian Bostons

   By Jim White, Indianapolis, IN

   

Preface

It might seem a bit of heresy for someone who had his/her collecting roots from 1968 to 1978 firmly planted in Muncie, Indiana (one of the "Homes" of Hemingray), as a student and staff member at Ball State ...                    [more]



   

INSULATOR OF THE MONTH

   
   

THREADLESS ON ICE

Dan Gauron takes advantage of a wintry scene to photograph some of his favorite insulators: CD 735 Mulford & Biddles. These threadless date from the mid-to-late 1860's, and were used on early telegraph lines throughout the ...                    [more]



   

The Hunt For Edward Klingel

   By Rick Soller

   

Recently while looking over my shelves of insulators, I picked up the odd porcelain piece pictured here. My records indicate I bought the piece in 2000 from Doug Williams on eBay for about $10. Recess-embossed on the unglazed bottom is a block of text that reads, "E.L. KLINGEL." Another ...                    [more]



   

Purple Beehives

   By Jason Nickerson

   

Early May of 2006, while awaiting my impending graduation from the University of New Brunswick, I decided to stay in Fredericton, N.B. instead of returning to my home town in Nova Scotia, to do a solid month of insulator hunting. I managed to get out on several hunts and turned up nothing more than some common pieces ...                    [more]



   

Meet Collector Craig Johnson

   
   

Hello all. My name's Craig Johnson, and I'm here to confess to a deep, dark secret. A secret that's been kept in the closet for a good twenty five years:

I COLLECT INSULATORS.

I've always loved insulators, but never knew they were on the web - until ...                    [more]



   

Kids Korner - Insulators

   By Andrew Hendershot

   

This year, I discovered what an insulator was. I have always looked at telephone poles but never took any notice of them. This year at my school, Mr. Lee Brewer came to teach my homeroom class. He had glass things all over the room. Our class asked what they were and he told us all about them. Not everyone ...                    [more]



   

THE FLUID STORY

   
   

(Caution - LARGE DOWNLOAD)

Once the capital of the Territory of Oregon, Oregon City governed an area that today makes up the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and the western portions of Montana & Wyoming. It was the "End of the Trail"... THE destination for thousands of immigrants who in the 1840's ...                    [more]



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