Author: Steve Sommers
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DISCOVERING SCHOOLROOMS
Back to School? Schoolrooms – good or bad memories for all of us? Maybe that question is how or why “kids in school” ended up in my collection. Like most adult collectors I played with toy soldiers as a boy: Dimestores, hollowcasts, composition, and plastics. A lot of these were running and shooting various weapons;… Read more
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POLAR EXPEDITIONS IN THE PLAYROOM
Sixty years ago, excitement focused on a leap into Space, a journey to the moon, and then stepping out for a few brief moments before returning home. One hundred years earlier, like our “space race”, the world’s imagination had been captured by other scientific journeys. The most dramatic was probably the race to the Poles.… Read more