The writer Andrew Solomon recounts his enduring love for the cheerful little heroes of Swedish folklore, handed down from his late mother. By Andrew Solomon First, advent calendars; then gnomes; then ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Alabama -- Though some people might call what Ron Johnson does in his spare time “whittling,” he calls it carving. The difference between the two, he explained, is that in whittling, the ...

Windowsills full of flowers, carved wooden doors, garden gnomes. A new book shows the style of ranch houses from California to New Mexico In America between the 1950s and 1960s, especially in the ...