The Great Lakes Beach Glass and Coastal Arts Festival returns to Erie's Bayfront Convention Center on Oct. 11 and 12. The event will feature nearly 50 vendors selling items like jewelry, art and sweet ...

Erie expo on Great Lakes beach glass, art a must see for collectors and enthusiasts

Collecting is a childhood hobby for some people, but for others, it is a lifelong pursuit or something started in adulthood. Collectors who begin early in life often modify their goals when they get older.

Collecting cars isn’t an option for everybody, but they are arguably still one of the coolest and most rewarding things to have. And like any other collectible, there are many types of cars a person can collect.

1. To come together in a group or mass; gather: Sand collected in the crevices. 2. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.

collecting (countable and uncountable, plural collectings) A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. Present participle of collect. At that point, everyone was collecting, or trying to. She paused, collecting her thoughts.

Collecting is the practice of acquiring rare, interesting, valuable or aesthetic things and organizing them into a curated collection. This helps to preserve things for future generations and is often inspired by a hobby, interest or research process.