WILKES-BARRE – Northeast Pennsylvania’s infamous Cabbage Patch doll riot that made international headlines 40 years ago made the big screen locally Friday. “Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of ...
Every Cabbage Patch Doll I received as a kid had a birth certificate that cited its place of birth as Babyland General Hospital. At 42 years old, I decided to finally visit the hospital in Cleveland, ...
Pat Benner of Hanover Twp. was just telling her granddaughter about surviving a riot and walking away with three Cabbage Patch Kids dolls in Wilkes-Barre in November 1983. Soon, they’ll be able to ...
Into every generation, a toy craze is born. And if it happens to be born in an Appalachian cabbage patch where a Bunnybee can sprinkle it with magic crystal dust, chances are that toy craze will never ...
Christmas morning 1983: All the presents in the Fleming household had been unwrapped — or so I thought. But then a package that had been hidden behind the tree “caught” my Dad’s eye. It was for me.