(Editor's note: This story is an amalgam of two stories that originally appeared in 2016.) Raggedy Ann is a simple and unpretentious doll with button eyes and a tender smile. Not bad for over 100 ...

September is a busy month for birthdays and celebrations in our farm family. Not only did my parents celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary Saturday, both my sisters also started this month with ...

Raggedy Ann is a simple and unpretentious doll with button eyes and a tender smile. Not bad for over 100 years old. You won't find her in many stores these days. Her old-fashioned rag-doll look of ...

ARCOLA -- The irony of her childhood disinterest in dolls, in general, was not lost on the granddaughter of Johnny Gruelle, the Arcola native who created the Raggedy Ann doll, as she attended the ...

I was shocked to discover that my granddaughters, ages 13, 11 and 9, have no idea about the Raggedy Ann doll. Her name was in a story that one of them was reading, and she asked about the doll. I must ...