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 ...

The other week I was shocked to suddenly find my old stamp collection. I wasn’t even especially looking for it. I was just going through an old cabinet in the basement. There it was. Stamps from ...

In the 1950s and 60s stamp collecting was a widespread hobby with around half of young Britons boasting a collection of some sort. Since then, philately's popularity has waned somewhat. But still many ...

COVID may have breathed new life into this oft-forgotten pastime. Even if you’re quarantining, you can sate a stamp collecting addiction. After all, today, most buying and trading occur online: buying ...

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A meticulously labeled stamp collection left behind on a train includes some mementos that are centuries old, some from the Confederacy and others from around the globe ...

If only I can find the indestructible black-box! In my younger days, I had many hobbies. Nothing serious. Just random collections of stamps, pressed leaves, coins, greetings cards. It was something I ...

As a young boy, I had several thousand stamps in my collection. Back then, receiving a letter in the post meant new stamps! I still remember receiving my first stamp of Ireland, attached to a letter ...