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Article: Carving a niche; Wood carving and a love for waterfowl hunting go hand in hand for Pat Meneely, who creates working works of art with his duck decoys.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 4, 2004
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Byline: Doug Smith; Staff Writer
Pat Meneely is in his element, whether hunting over a spread of decoys on a half-frozen slough or hunkered in his dusty garage workshop transforming a block of cedar into a handsome canvasback.
He grew up hunting, fishing and watching his dad build things with wood.
"I've been swimming in sawdust since I was 5," he said the other day. "I've always been around birds and wood-working. The two just came together."
Meneely, 48, of Minneapolis, is one of Minnesota's top carvers of working wooden duck decoys - works of art, really, that are equally at home on a fireplace mantle or bobbing in an icy slough. He ...