Inspecting rows of gleaming machines in white and beige, Toni Dire remembered her grandmother as a laundry slave, bent for hours over an ancient wringer-washer to help keep the family fresh. "I would ...

Way back in time I wrote a column about wash day in my family when I was a young boy. I recalled the log cabin that my father built back in the mid 20s and the fast moving spring running beside it ...

When I was growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s, my great-grandmother was still using a Maytag wringer washing machine that her family purchased in 1928. Saturday was wash day, and we'd spend the ...