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Adorned with fresh wreaths, glowing lights and colorful window displays, downtown Concord looks a little different this winter. For the first holiday season in a decade and a half, Concord Handmade ...

Ripon has celebrated Christmas since the area was settled in 1844. The community has changed over the years, and the Ripon Historical Society looks back more than 100 years ago to Christmas in the ...

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The recommendations from five specialists range from olive oil to high-design lighting. By Tanya Dukes Handmade items always have a special allure, so who better to ask for their gift ideas than ...

Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.