CLINTON — Dozens of bears, eagles and gnomes perished in a December fire deep in the woods of Whidbey Island. It was a devastating loss for chainsaw artist Steve Backus, who carved the creatures that ...

NOTE: This post first ran Oct. 1, 2018. This version has been updated. There's a lot of weird stuff around the Lehigh Valley. There’s a giant gnome carved from a tree, for instance. And not one, but ...

The smell of freshly carved wood is in the air at the New Village Recreation Center in Centereach. At a long table, men and women are working with short, sharp knives. Their art varies from a decoy ...

DELEON SPRINGS — While cardinals called from the trees above DeLeon Springs on Saturday, assorted cardinals, wood ducks and other birds perched along a row of tabletops alongside the springs, ...

I love a good mystery. A great one presented itself several weeks ago when my husband and I were riding our bikes along the Erie Canal Heritage Trail. A little more than a quarter mile southeast of ...

Rochester, N.Y. — Santa Claus hosted a special 'Gnome for the Holidays' event at Watermark Legacy at Clover Blossom on Sunday. The event featured an ice carving demonstration by locally renowned ice ...