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Article: Carvers' goal gets reshaped.(wood carving of Kiskadee)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2006
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Byline: Jacqueline L. Urgo
TUCKERTON, N.J. _ The air is thick with the smell of linseed oil and Atlantic white cedar, and Dick Jessen is sitting in the middle of it all like a king upon a throne of wood shavings.
It's not clear whether he is contemplating his next remark, or the delicate curve of the neck of the great kiskadee he is carving, as his sharp eyes narrow and he pauses, a carving knife in one hand, a small piece of wood in the other.
But when he finally speaks, it's clear that Jessen, who has been carving for 50 years, recognizes the irony that this deep-rooted regional practice of turning castaway pieces of wood into replicas of ...