Former Barrington Middle School science teacher Emory Pineo is a self-taught repairman who fixes, refurbishes, reconstructs and collects heavy metal heaters. He’s been doing it for a half-century.

THORNDIKE – Trimmed in shiny nickel for looks, faced with clear mica windows for viewing the fire, the Riverside coal stove is a beauty. It’s relatively efficient, too, with a “base burner” design ...

Aspen’s history spanned much of the development of heating stoves and their fuel. The earlier decades capture the flavor of the subject. The Aspen Times ran an article in 1886 portraying what, to ...