I met my friend Paul at summer camp. Paul was a canoe-tripper—most famous for the summer he abandoned his campers for three days alone and unsupervised on an island in LaVérendrye Wildlife Reserve. He ...

My mom started [collecting] in the late 1930s . . . in anticipation of her three kids going to college . . . and bought . . . newly issued commemoratives, [paying] $3 ...

COVID may have breathed new life into this oft-forgotten pastime. Even if you’re quarantining, you can sate a stamp collecting addiction. After all, today, most buying and trading occur online: buying ...

Many collectors today wonder if postage stamps are good investments. While some rare and historical stamps have increased in value over the years, the market can be very unpredictable. Factors like ...

Hunkering at home in 2020 gave me time to sort through the family archive, which is the name I gave to the collections and accumulations of things left by departed family members — mostly letters, ...

What keeps somebody glued to a hobby for 70 years? For Steve Reinhard, 78, who has been happily stuck on stamp collecting for seven decades, the pastime delivers first-class delight. Every tiny sticky ...