This month we opened our new maker space, Play Lab. It’s a bright, busy place,…
Tag: Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play
How did you spend the summer after your high school graduation? Though that was a…
Have you ever wondered how some of your favorite board games were developed? Did the…
By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…
Is our destiny in our hands, in God’s hands, or are we merely tossed on…
Have you ever played hockey with miniature stick-wielding players and a thumbnail-sized puck on a…
Despite growing up in Rochester and routinely passing The Strong museum en route to the…
“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…
Parker Brothers, founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1883, published more than 1,800 games during its…
How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…
There are five laws of library science, penned by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931: Books…
While processing the Don Daglow papers for The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play,…