Cute as a Button and Other Reasons to Become a Button Collector

Tales from (mostly) tiny towns in (mostly) the Midwest

Antique china buttons. Photo by author.

I don’t remember why my husband and I had stopped forty miles north of Interstate 70, our usual route across Ohio. Maybe we were heading home from a B&B in that northeastern corner of the state. Or maybe we were bored with the endless gray ribbon of Interstate 70 spooling through the farmland. Whatever…