Lane Home Furnishings is asking Bay Area residents to help locate and make safer for children thousands of airtight cedar chests that were made between 1912 and 1987. Lane, based in Tupelo, Miss ...

Cedar chests traditionally have been given to young women who were planning to get married. In centuries past, teenage girls stored linens in these ”hope chests.” Because every item was hand ...

A Reynoldsburg couple was relating the story of how their 15-year-old daughter had suffocated in a Lane cedar chest in 1999. Goldsmith, 67, broke down and cried. He knew what it was like to lose a ...

Q: My grandmother gave me her grandmother’s cedar chest. My great-grandmother was Pennsylvania Dutch and ended up moving to Iowa. She was married to a Civil War captain and died at a home for… ...

Cedar chests have been used for generations to keep off-season clothing, precious family heirlooms, and intricately stitched linens far away from the damage of moths. You'll find them in attics ...

Lane cedar chests were a staple for decades, but now that they're no longer produced, they've increased in value. Appraise ...

Loose Documents. You might have hundreds of art projects from your children tossed in a cedar chest, waiting for a day when you'll either frame them or ship them off with your kids to their future ...