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 ...

Frank Kilburn was a professor of natural history and ornithology at the Washington State Normal School — what’s now the University of Maine at Machias — for 25 years. After he retired, in 1949, he set ...

WALKERSVILLE -- When looking at a block of basswood, one person may see just a piece of a tree. Lyndsey Mullen sees her next bird-carving project. For the past five years, Lyndsey has been taking a ...