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Hekima Hapa runs around with her four children, teaches a sewing class in Brooklyn and ends her day by burning a little sage.

Gone are the days of dying eggs, filling Easter baskets full of goodies and pulling all-nighters to finish smocked dresses. I ...

Therese Stempin has never been very far away from a sewing machine. Her mother bought her a Necchi machine when she was in the third grade. Stempin still has the machine, in almost pristine condition ...

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I often give basic Singer sewing machines to kids for their birthdays, bar and bat mitzvahs and other celebrations. I believe a sewing machine is as indispensable today as a personal computer or ...

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Twenty-two years ago, when Kate Eichhorn picked up sewing for the first time, she couldn’t have imagined that one day she'd ...

My mom died last year at age 103; an inscription on her high school diploma led me to reflect on how Iowa has changed, writes ...

Priscilla, an 1888 Oyster Sloop that's designated a National Historic Landmark , is getting a new mast, a new deck, a new ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...