They bought it some 50 years ago, a Coleman camp stove of the variety that nearly everyone seemed to have back in those days. Anyone who camps knows the kind: Green paint, red gas tank, two burners, a ...

It’s a 21st-century given that many consumer goods – including some of the most influential and expensive – are short-lived. We buy cars, computers and cell phones every few years (if not less), and ...

It’s amazing to me where stories end up sometimes. Such was the case last week, when I wrote a column about a 50-plus-year-old Coleman camp stove that was rescued from the bowels of a farmhouse ...

When our Coleman stove died an untimely death last summer, and a neighbor offered us his Coleman camp stove as a replacement, we jumped at the freebie. But when he brought down the stove, we wondered ...

As a kid growing up in New Hampshire, camping was a summertime rite of passage. I particularly loved our second-grade class trip to Jigger Johnson Campground up on the Kancamagus Highway, and all of ...

For more than two decades, Dennis Lewon held various editorial roles at Backpacker and Outside, and has written about subjects from parenting to travel. He’s currently the director of content in the ...