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.

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...

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 ...

Hudson resident David W. Morin always enjoyed wildlife and the outdoors. Having majored in painting and sculpture at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, he was naturally drawn to the subjects he ...

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 ...

CORNWALL -- Bird watchers, art enthusiasts, and the curious gathered at the Cornwall Historical Society last Saturday for a presentation on the history and techniques used to produce detailed, ...

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 ...

I met an amazingly talented man at a Christmas craft festival in Hampton. I took his card and promised that I would be in touch. Just recently, I did. I wasn't disappointed. Far from it. In 1969, ...

Creek Side Gallery in Leonardtown currently is showing wild bird carvings by local artists Warren and Maxine Brown.Warren first carved as a Cub Scout and, after serving in the U.S. Navy as a ...

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,” ...