The latest exhibit at the Vanishing Texana Museum in Jacksonville displays toys connected to the history of East Texas, and it could have opened with a bang. The Nichols Cap Gun collection opened Aug.

When Don Raker was just a little boy, toys were quite different than the ones kids play with today. For this High Point man, these western toys from the past still ‘trigger’ a lot of memories. “At ...

SPRINGFIELD — More than five decades ago, staff at the Springfield Armory Museum walked in to discover someone had pried open a display case and taken a rare Model 1842 percussion cap pistol. On that ...