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 ...

Rediscovering my stamp collection has brought me joy, nostalgia – and a handy distraction from study I had two weeks to prepare for my medical school exams. Two weeks of blissful solitude at home, ...

Standing outside his Miracle Mile office, veteran philatelist George W. Holschauer of the Colonial Stamp Company takes a puff of his ever-present pipe and talks about recent press coverage of the ...

The new stamps, out Saturday, will celebrate the lowrider culture that is rooted in the 1940s working-class Mexican American/Chicano communities throughout the American Southwest, which began as a ...

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 ...