Tennessee’s first “wind telephone” was created by Allison Young, a cancer research nurse at Vanderbilt University, in East Nashville. The concept comes from Japan, and the idea is that a disconnected ...

Public telephones have become something of a rare sight around the world, with smartphones having replaced a lot of traditional essentials. The wind phone, while it has a strikingly similar appearance ...

While listening to a podcast, she learned about a somewhat newer concept: a wind phone.“As soon as they said that I got on my phone and started googling immediately and was like ‘oh my gosh,’” said ...

WICKENBURG, Ariz. — There is a phone in Wickenburg that will never ring. It is a payphone that requires no payment — no number of nickels or dimes will ever make it work again — but people still use ...

In a corner of Somerset, Massachusetts, there is a sound that seems out of place. A rotary phone in a small wooden structure, allowing the living to connect with those not on the other line, but on ...

A newly dedicated Wind Phone on the grounds of Cornerstone Church in Williamstown, New Jersey, offers a symbolic tether to communicate with deceased loved ones for grieving members of the community. A ...

A trail walker snapped this picture of Tara Yamelski’s vandalized wind phone that she had placed on the Back Mountain Trail on Sept. 20. Tara Yamelski recently left this hand-painted rock at the wind ...

WICKENBURG, Ariz. — There is a phone in Wickenburg that will never ring. It is a payphone that requires no payment — no number of nickels or dimes will ever make it work again — but people still use ...

WICKENBURG, Ariz. — There is a phone in Wickenburg that will never ring. It is a payphone that requires no payment — no number of nickels or dimes will ever make it work again — but people still use ...