Antique oil lamp identification can be a bit tricky, considering there are many reproduction antique lamps on the market. The thing is, a genuine antique oil lamp can sometimes be quite valuable, so ...

Brett Tracy isn’t just living in the past, he’s basking in its glow. If you stroll past the artist’s home in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood at night, you might see the warm flicker of lanterns in the ...

As a young child, Virginia McLaurin remembers seeing and admiring this oil lamp in her grandparents’ home in Cheraw, South Carolina. Her grandparents lived in a log house which they built themselves ...

“Mi not really living in the dark because I have my current [electricity] — I have my lamp — so I have to give thanks for it.

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