In December 2014, Max Brown was picking through an Incline Village dumpster for a community service project when a collection of 1980s cassettes caught his eye. Fancying himself a collector, he pulled ...

Library of Congress curator Mark Dimunation embarked on years-long mission to track down copies of books once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Molly Roberts For more than a decade, Mark Dimunation has led a ...

Bob Gilson looks forward to Friday mornings when he and a group of volunteers sort through boxes of donated books at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library in Virginia Beach. Occasionally, Gilson and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A Friends of Virginia Beach Public Library board member found a book of court cases going back to 1730 that was compiled by Thomas Jefferson himself. Bob Gilson came upon ...

Thanks to shows like Storage Wars and Antiques Roadshow, I've long fantasized about finding something incredibly valuable in a junk pile or thrift store or used bookshop. Turns out, it's not such a ...

On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library of 6,487 volumes. After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814, the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Bob Gilson looks forward to Friday mornings when he and a group of volunteers sort through boxes of donated books at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library in Virginia Beach.