Q: We enjoy your Saturday column in The Gainesville Sun. About 20 years ago my wife and I went to Finland to see the homeland of her maternal grandparents and to meet her Finnish cousins. One of her ...

Several readers correctly identified this as a tobacco cutter. In the late 1800s, Lorillard manufactured several brands of plug chewing tobacco, including Climax and Tin Tag. Cast-iron cutters like ...

Guernseyman Mike Tidd chose to submit the mechanical tobacco cutter that his father made during the German occupation of the island between 30 June 1940 and 9 May 1945. It's an object which now ...

Despite all the funky weather this past winter, it seems that the Coachella Valley made it through mostly unscathed. And notwithstanding all the crazy things going on in the world these days — ...