Flashback Friday – from June of 2019 – One Of A Kind Eagle

There are always variations on old standards. Some are even improvements.

Want A Bite?

Carved by 19th century Salem Architect and carver Samuel McIntire

Apples

I carve wood; some people carve bone, soap, and artificial substances that mimic illegal Ivory. The little face in the photo above was carved from an apple by a folk artist who visited the folklife center I used to run.

The Transom Eagle

I remembered back to my own Navy days. And recalling the old rubric that "if it moves - salute it. If it doesn't paint it,"

Sacrilegious Roulette

In the sixties, I hung out with an interesting cast of characters. We sang folksongs, played guitar, held forth loudly on topics about which we knew little, and held in contempt those who we knew were not as cool as we.We amused ourselves with simple, sometimes stupid games. One of the games we enjoyed playing …