Root, now 79, is passionate about the history of duck hunting, specifically hand-carved decoys ... at the expanding Center for American Decoys. In 1966, the Illinois River flooded and after receding, ...

Harvey, George and to a lesser extent Fred Stevens created what many consider the finest hand-carved wooden duck decoys in the world! A decoy that sold for 83 cents in the 1890s can easily fetch a ...

Rare examples of a uniquely American folk art — hand-carved duck decoys — will be on display ... who harvested white cedar wood from local wetlands, made non-reflective paint himself to ...

Tom Boozer's workshop looks pretty much like you would expect of someone who makes working hollow body wood decoys ... is not a duck, using his mentor's draw knife, a rasp and hand saw.

Without wooden duck decoys for the birds to flock to ... Here, visitors can see more than 1,200 hand-carved decoys representing about 150 wildfowl species from across the world.

NEW VIENNA - Steve Kerper's passions for waterfowl and trees find expression in hand-carved wooden ducks that he calls decoys but which are actually objects of art. “I'm a duck nut and a tree ...

Every time I attend a local auction, my wife accuses me of bringing home a hand-carved wooden duck decoy. We have a bunch in our collection scattered around the house. Most of them are probably ...

His brother was actually the duck hunter, and one year, Talton bought him an antique hand-carved decoy for Christmas ... on how to make traditional wooden decoys. And it’s in that Core Sound ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Hand-carved duck decoys can be works of ... And that's when I started making them. Carving wooden duck decoys has been a lifelong passion for Kingsmill and his friend ...

hand-carved duck decoys, Fiel knew they’d be perfect for auction. What he didn’t know at the time was how much they were worth. Some of the duck decoys date back to the 1800s and are in near ...

but sticks mostly to white pine for the fish decoys and white cedar and cork for the waterfowl. He creates a draft design of his work before carving. Carving requires a steady hand and eye for ...

The crappie decoy effortlessly swam a graceful arc, the tight circle of a possibly wounded fish and the clarion call to a predatory northern pike. In the hands of a darkhouse spearer, fish decoys act ...