Known as "Feather" Jim Sprankle due to his artwork, he played baseball in the minors and was called up by the Dodgers for the 1955 World Series.

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — At the turn of the 20th century, before high-rise hotels lined the Virginia Beach Boardwalk, railroad company executives owned cottages with front-row ocean views. Bernard Peabody ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Carved wooden ice fishing decoy in ...

This series was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center and the Science Journalism course at Duke Marine Lab. Since before he was old enough to drive a car, Chris Yeomans has been duck ...

A duck blind in eastern North Carolina. Image by Alyssa Klim. United States. How does this affect hunters and artists alike? This series was produced in partnership with the Science Journalism course ...

Ocracoke Waterfowl Festival is this weekend when duck decoy carvers show off their decoy artwork. It is a dying art on this Hyde County island, but one longtime carver tries to keep it alive. Ocracoke ...

Rochester, N.Y. — The Genesee Valley Woodcarvers club is celebrating its 50th anniversary at the annual show and competition at the Rochester Museum and Science Center on Saturday. The event aims to ...

Dozens of carvers, collectors and exhibitors from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware are planning to make the journey later this month to Ocracoke Island for a two-day ...

Canvasback by the Ocracoke Island Waterfowl Festival’s 2025 featured carver, the late Mark Justice. Photo: Ocracoke Island Decoy Carvers Guild Dozens of carvers, collectors and exhibitors from North ...

There’s a moment when you round the bend on Route 40 and first glimpse Havre de Grace that feels like you’ve accidentally driven onto a movie set – the kind where big city lawyers discover the true ...

Duck hunters are cut from a rare cloth. The sport is expensive and time consuming, pushing marriages and work to their brink, and the birds we pursue move best in the very conditions that keep most ...