Dr. Michael Van Wagenen from the history department at Georgia Southern presented at October's meeting of the Bulloch County ...

But when Gaines, who co-founded the shop in 1985, started talking to museums like Cooper Hewitt and the Museum of the City of New York about preserving her collection, each wanted only a few pieces.

CLAD IN a white bunny suit that leaves only his eyes exposed, S.V. Sreenivasan carefully picks up the slender object that lies at the heart of the global economy, a silicon wafer. But this ...