Jacob Shannon (left) and Lynda Shannon Bluestein set up a "wind phone" outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, ...
Known as wind phones - an idea that started in Japan - they give the chance to have a one-sided conversation with people who ...
Russ Young has a standing weekly telephone date with his wife, who died this year. He calls Patricia Young every Sunday from a wind phone — an old, disconnected device that hangs on a pole in the ...
“Old-fashioned” was the word one state official used to describe telephone books, the once ubiquitous source of reams of information. These days, though, when we let our “fingers do the walking,” as ...
People of a certain age might remember when it was common to dial a phone number to get the time and temperature. But imagine dialing a number for something less practical — to hear a friendly voice ...
On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, cream-colored rotary phone sitting in a grove of trees outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. She picked up the ...