Authors

Stan & Arlene Weitman

Stan and his wife, Arlene, continue to be avid collectors of crackle glass. They are especially proud of their crackle glass from around the world. They also collect Victorian art glass and other collectibles, and one of their serious hobbies is photography. Stan is a retired court reporter for the state of New York and a certified appraiser of antiques. Arlene has a master of arts degree in education and has been teaching elementary school for 17 years.

Kitturah Westenhouser

Kitturah Westenhouser is a Barbie doll collector and charter member of the Forest Rose Barbie Doll Club, Barbie Collectors Club of Great Britain, Dolls International Prestige Club of Italy, and the Official Barbie Collector's Club. She has collected Barbie dolls for more than 25 years.

Harry & Jody Whitworth

Harry Whitworth worked for the FBI in Washington, D.C. for more than 32 years, first employed as a stenographer in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters. He married his wife, Jody, in 1965, and in 1984 the two began collecting G-men & FBI toys & collectibles. Jody is an antique dealer, toy inventor, and avid collector of clowns.

Robert Wicker

Robert Wicker became reacquainted with his childhood love of Hot Wheels cars in the early 1990s at a flea market, and he has been collecting them ever since. He is a computer programmer/analyst, and also collects 50s & 60s music.

Laurence W Williams

The late Laurence Williams was born in 1942 and was an avid collector of souvenir china for more than 15 years. He was a hotel consultant and a part-time dealer in antiques. He organized a society of collectors and wrote and lectured on souvenir china.

Debra J Wisniewski

Debra Wisniewski has been involved in her family’s estate auctioneering business since 1970. She has served as president and secretary of the West Michigan Buttoneers and is a member of the National Button Society. She continues to spread the joy of button collecting at schools, historical societies, and civic groups.

Kathryn Witt

Kathryn Witt is a freelance writer and writes for a variety of newspapers and magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom, including England's DOLL Magazine, for which she writes a column on international one-of-a-kind artists, and, in the U.S., Dolls Magazine, which regularly features the doll museums and collections from Kathryn's book, Doll Directory: A Guide to U.S. Doll Museums, Collections and Hospitals. She is a member of the Midwest Travel Writers Association and the Kentucky Writers Coalition.

Kathryn's first book on the topic of dolls, Contemporary American Doll Artists and Their Dolls, brings together 25 top and emerging original doll artists working in a variety of media. This book was followed by Doll Directory: A Guide to U.S. Doll Museums, Collections & Hospitals which features 166 venues, including libraries, historical societies and bed and breakfast inns, showcasing quality and historic doll collections.

A member of the Society of Children's Book Authors & Illustrators, Kathryn writes graded readers for Malaysian publisher, Penerbitan Pelangi, as part of Malaysia's ESL program. Her four published storybook series include the eight-book Tug of City Park and, with six titles each in the Now I Can Read series of Bronze, Silver and Gold books for children ages four to 11, Peg, Peep and Jeep, In The Meadow and Teegan's Travels. Recently, she completed a four-book series entitled Gold Heart, whose theme centers on love, which will be published in 2006.

The author graduated with honors from Northern Kentucky University and studied graduate literature and humanities at Miami University of Ohio and Xavier University in Cincinnati. She is currently writing a book on travel, one on Christmas and a children's book based loosely on the filming of Gone With the Wind. Click on www.kathywitt.com to learn more about Kathryn's books and writing projects.

Jim Wojtowicz

Jim Wojtowicz started collecting at the age of seven - coins, stamps, baseball cards, non-sport cards, soda bottle caps, toy soldiers, cowboys, Indians, and comic books were his boyhood pursuits. After an intermission for marriage and starting a family, he continued on with Western items and antique toys, particularly Buffalo Bill collectibles for 18 years.