There’s a moment when Jeff Jacobs demonstrates his carved wooden birds at farmers markets that always makes onlookers gasp. “I tell them: ‘No glue,’ ”Jacobs says. That’s when they realize his ...

Forty years ago, Jim Davison and his wife, Jeanne, were at an antiques show in Howard County, Maryland, when a hand-carved, ...

Joyce Volmut merely has to look out the windows of her in-home studio for feathered-and-beaked inspirations for the wood bird figurines she will show this weekend at the Kaw Valley Woodcarvers’ 33rd ...

A carved chipping sparrow on display as part of Claude and Ethel Kemper “The Birds of My Hollow” collection at Glenville State College’s Robert F. Kidd Library. (Photo Provided) GLENVILLE — A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone dreams of making a living doing something they absolutely love. For Jeff Duxbury, it’s his life and has been for the better part of forty years. He’s the owner of Dux’ Dekes Decoy Company in ...

Amy Adams collects ''carved wooden birds''. The 40-year-old actress loves ''kitsch'' things and has a special penchant for souvenir statues of her favorite feathered friends. Discussing her role as ...