THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

FITCHBURG — It doesn’t take much for a beginner to get started in the Central Mass Caricature Carvers; all you need is a carving knife, the right chunk of wood, and a little imagination. Members of ...

One evening in 1671, the English writer John Evelyn passed a cottage near the dockyard in Deptford, south London, and through the window saw a wood carver at work by candlelight. As he noted in his ...