NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia veteran has turned to wood carving to make sure other veterans know they're not alone this holiday season, or any other time of the year. Retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant ...

A few times a year, a workshop at the Guilford Handcraft Center turns into a place where Geppetto, the woodcarver, would be happy. Here, a half-dozen students arrive eager to turn simple blocks of ...

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Cedar fan birds are not considered fine art, but still they require skill and artful hands. The birds carved from wood have deep roots in Europe of the past when men, traveling far from home, sat ...

They look real, take dozens of hours to craft and will cost you if one is destined for your mantle. More than 400 people took in the Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show over the weekend in Vancouver. It was ...

Last year's winner in the World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl category, "Livingstone's Turaco" by Thomas Horn. Ward Museum Last year's winner at the World ...

For this Bubbler Talk, we set out to solve a mystery. Laurel Heebsh has been hiking Milwaukee County’s Oak Leaf Trail since the start of the pandemic when something caught her eye, and she decided to ...

MENDON -- You could say Jim Podsiadlo's new business is for the birds, and you'd be right. Just remove the phrase's negative connotations and you have a creative venture that has literally taken wing.

Wooden bears, birds and mythical creatures came to life in Frederick this weekend at the town’s annual carving competition. The “Chainsaws and Chuckwagons” event brought 10 woodcarvers to Frederick to ...

INTERSTATE, IT’S POSSIBLE IN PLACES TO EXIT AND WITHIN ONLY A MILE OR SO, FIND YOURSELF ON VERY WINDING, VERY NON-MAJOR BACK ROADS LIKE IN HUNTINGTON, VERMONT. WE’VE HAD A FEW PEOPLE UBER HERE, AND WE ...

With precision and skill, Michael Watson carefully edges his chainsaw over the exposed, dried-out log in front of him until it resembles a face. He is carving the long beard of a wood spirit into a ...