Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of my pet peeves is how we so casually use the term “unbelievable!” as the catch-all for such amazing accomplishments as an NBA shooting guard draining ...

Old washing machines weren’t fancy, smart, or high-tech—but they were built with a kind of durability and simplicity that many people miss today. Baby Boomers and Gen Xers often reminisce about ...

In Colorado, the 12,000 square foot Lee Maxwell Washing Museum is running out of space. Lee Maxwell, 93, has been collecting washing machines since 1985. In 1992, he opened the Lee Maxwell Washing ...

Upon retiring as a Colorado State University professor in 1985, Maxwell and his wife, Barbara, made a chance stop at an auction in Iowa on their way to Maine for vacation. They came home with 13 ...

His first antique washing machine was a gift from Barbara's aunt, an old hand-operated Rue model given to the aunt by a nearby Nebraska farmer in 1920. "I had no inclination to collect washing ...