Dialing a rotary phone, waiting for a page to load, sending a handwritten letter. Before instant messaging, streaming, and 24/7 notifications, life naturally required patience and presence. According ...

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...

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, ...

It’s safe to say that few people still use rotary phones on a daily basis. Hell, most of us don’t even use landline telephones anymore. But just because these classic phones are no longer being used ...

I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080. And even though I've had a cell phone ...

We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older ...

That's the D-122 KXT-41 Tone Dialer. It costs less than $6. Why am I devoting service space to this product? Read on... On the independently-owned and run Vonage Forum, I've run across a fascinating ...

Jacob Shannon (left) and Lynda Shannon Bluestein set up a "wind phone" outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. (Meg Dalton/ Connecticut Public Radio) On a recent Sunday, ...

There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — ...

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 ...