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This old (long)house
Draw knives, hunting knives, axes, saw horses — and hundreds of helping hands. Before them lay more than 2,000 saplings, ready to be debarked, o......
Breathing life into home where Lincoln died
People know of Ford's Theatre, where on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln.

Fewer people know of the Petersen House, where the ......
Double vision: collaborative and individual creation at Allen Miller Arts
Robert Allen and Kevin Miller, owners of the new Allen Miller Arts gallery at 117 E. Chestnut St., often paint together.

Sometimes, one will finish......
The surreal world of David Lunin
David Lunin likes when people laugh at his furniture designs.
"It's exactly the reaction I want," Lunin said during a recent interview at his small El......
SLIDESHOW: The work of David Lunin
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Cutting corners, and everything else, to create works of paper artPa. German folk arts on display at Mennonite Historical Society
Remember when you were a kid and you used folded pieces of paper and a big pair of scissors to create geometric snowflakes, which your mom always hung......
Lumber ends slumber
You don't need a stud finder to tell you that framing lumber prices have shot up.
Lumber futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reached $301 p......
Kayaks and history lessons
Hanging in a museum somewhere in Norway is a kayak from Greenland that dates back to 1888.
It likely was used by a seafarer who hunted seals or fished......
A business built on heavy timbers
The timbers supporting the upper deck of the outdoor dining pavilion at the Heritage Hotel converge like wheel spokes on a living tree growing through......
'Embracing the Uncarved Wood'
The value of a masterwork by, say, Cezanne or Van Gogh lies in the brilliant stroke of a practiced hand — the mastery of a technique and the uni......
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