My end goals for this project are the following: Play Nintendo and Super Nintendo games using emulation on a Raspberry Pi. Fit the project into a wooden cigar box (because I already have a cool wooden ...

Q-My 12-year-old grandson, Mark, collects cigar boxes and has taken a great interest in them. Is there a book on the subject or some collectors` club he can join? –Grandma Stern, Chicago. A-Cigar ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

You may remember that recently I talked about not buying cigar boxes as gifts. I stand by that for a few reasons. The biggest is that they can be expensive, even on sale, and a box includes a lot more ...

It sounds raw. It doesn’t sound like a nice guitar when you pick it up and strum it. It sounds different, unrefined. “You’re talking about a stick with strings on it, and a box wrapped around a stick, ...

Those of us of the Social Security generation likely remember our fathers for a lot of things. Those men of the Greatest Generation were a special lot with many different interests and practices. All ...

My father’s “office” for his store in the 1950s and 1960s was a little room, not much more than an alcove, with a small table, a chair and a “filing system” that was actually a pair of cigar boxes. No ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...