Gary Lipham has carved just enough wooden duck decoys to understand how much skill and creativity the craft demands. “I wanted to have an appreciation for carving, so I carved a little bit,” said ...

, and, of course, historic guns. We hope you enjoy. Stay classy, everyone._ Until he carved his first decoys, Jerry Talton was, by his own description, a “wild-ass redneck surfer dude” from the North ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A world champion duck decoy carver from Terrebonne Parish has a new masterpiece in the middle of his living room. It’s a life-sized bald eagle. Curtis Fabre has lived most of ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...

Sometimes one’s passion for a hobby can turn into a lifelong venture. Bob Jones has carved and painted wooden duck decoys for more than 60... Oct 13, 2020 — Sometimes one’s passion for a hobby can ...

Bill Browne graduated from Lincoln Southeast High School in 1972 and he went on to go to get a degree from the UNL College of Law and after he graduated and shortly after he passed the bar, Bill had a ...

ERIE — Frank Buchner made a living working on ships that traveled throughout the Great Lakes in the first half of the last century. He was a captain and engineer on what were then known as “sand ...

Bill Sarni grew up next door to Joseph W. Lincoln, a famous decoy carver whose decoys are highly sought out by collectors today, both here and abroad. Bill spent much of his youth hunting and fishing ...

Chris Linn had been painting decorative waterfowl decoys for more than two decades when this winter she decided to try something a little different. Working from a studio in her home in the hills ...

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Members of the Baton Rouge-based Pelican Wood Carvers’ Guild are often surrounded by piles of wood shavings, but on Saturday, they collected piles of soap. It’s a great teaching tool for children, ...

Until he carved his first decoys, Jerry Talton was, by his own description, a “wild-ass redneck surfer dude” from the North Carolina coast. His brother was actually the duck hunter, and one year, ...