DULUTH – These stoves tell stories. Dennis Gunsolus knows them all. His basement is a showroom of more than 200 ornate and meticulously restored home heating devices that date back more than a century ...

The first artifacts have been moved to the new History Center! Boxes and display cases have started making their way to their new home, though we still have many more things to move. Sappington & Sons ...

In inventing the wood stove, Ben Franklin built a freestanding fireplace with an open front and cast-iron sides. A revolutionary idea at the time, the Pennsylvania Fireplace, as it was called, soon ...

When we were having the shell of our present home built the builder called us and said it was hard to work because of the cold weather. He told us he had an air tight wood stove he would install for a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - If you grew up in Louisiana, you probably have a memory of your mother or grandmother stirring a roux or cooking a roast in a big cast-iron pot. And if you’re lucky, that ...

The Vault is Slate’s brand-new history blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatevault. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Little misses in the first decades of the ...

ATTLEBORO -- This Saturday, the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum will open an exhibit of antique wood- and coal-burning stoves called “Embers of Innovation.” The cast iron stoves have all been ...

In times of crisis, stories which puts a smile on a reader’s face are always appreciated. In April 1915, Europe was at war and the stocks were sinking. So, on April 18, 1915, the Syracuse Herald asked ...

Cast iron pans have been around for a long time and many cooks swear by them. There is a brand that started in the 1800s that ...