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Article: WOOD CARVINGS FUELED BY UNIQUE VISION; MINIATURES OF FARM EQUIPMENT ARE LABOR OF LOVE FOR NORM RILEY OF SENNETT.(Neighbors Cayuga)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2003
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Byline: Dave Tobin Staff Writer
Like a cowboy knows his horse, Norm Riley knows his farm equipment.
By the time he and his brother, Douglas, sold their Sennett dairy farm in 1979, Riley had been driving tractors some 40 years. He knows the way tractors, grain drillers, haybalers, potato diggers and combines are built, the way a surgeon knows anatomy.
Riley has turned that knowledge, along with an uncanny memory and eye for detail, to his woodshop. There, he taps a seemingly bottomless well of resourcefulness and patience to create detailed, small-scale wooden replicas of the equipment he used, and some he didn't.
He works without plans ...