For some people, carving the Thanksgiving turkey is a tradition and point of pride. There’s never any question whether they will do the honors when that golden centerpiece emerges from the oven. But ...

Although artfully placed to attract unsuspecting prey, the dominant decoy setups in area swamps and fields when the waterfowl hunting season opens in the fall are likely to be cookie-cutter uniform ...

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 ...

Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...

HICKORY CORNERS --Join Southwest Michigan's own award-winning carver Willy McDonald for a decoy-carving demonstration at 1 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary in Hickory Corners.Learn about ...

I am the eldest of nine kids. Growing up, the family was a dozen at the dinner table, if you counted the Great Dane underneath. My mother’s oven was like Noah’s Ark: Everything entered in pairs. Two ...

Carving birds is “a great hobby,” according to John Mastrangelo, a Braintree resident for 58 years and chaplain of American Legion Post 86. “It’s a lot of work, but you end up with something nice,” ...