It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including one in a Jacksonville cemetery.

A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss Taryn Lindhorst, The Conversation The first wind phone was built in 2010 in ...

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 ...

My husband bought an old rotary telephone with the intent to put it in an old phone nook in our daughter's condo. When we got home from our trip, he plopped the phone down on an end table ...

Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no deliveries of food and no hugs. For months afterward ...

The Webster City Rotary Club’s annual Turkey Dinner is nearly ready for gobblin’. Tickets for the October 20 event are on sale now. They are $15 each. This dinner is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are ...

In the early 1800s in the United States, folks settling the American frontier would gather in barns to celebrate special ...

Tickets are on sale for the Rotary Club of Summit County’s annual car raffle. Single tickets cost $10, or 4 for $30, or 15 for $100, according to the Rotary Club of Summit County’s website.

Not for Sale.” But that was from decades ago ... and “installed” a rotary phone, with no wires connecting it to anything. Sasaki would go into the booth and talk to his cousin.

Then I heard about the wind phone. At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located in a secluded spot in nature, usually within a booth-type structure and often next to a ...