GREENFIELD — Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock County family who called her Mom and Grandma. Now, a piece of her ...

When I was a kid and my bike chain gummed up with gunk, Mom handed me a can of “sewing machine oil” and had me lubricate the chain. Soon, the bike hummed along smoothly again. We’d use sewing machine ...

The hum of a sewing machine filled the room as Mursal Alime’s steady hands fed more of the white cloth into the machine. The material came out on the other end with a long, straight stitch. “She’s ...

Noteworthy Tar Heel Traveler: Sewing machine shop Sam Johnson passed away the other day. For much of his life, he ran a little sewing machine shop in Raleigh and even invented sewing-machine devices ...

Today, where the concept of “disruption” has become so popular in business, those developing apps and new startups can look to the Singer Sewing Machine as one of the original disruptive technologies.