BURLINGTON — Sure, the weather wasn’t great and the “pond” was a container filled with water atop a picnic table Saturday at Maiben Park, but that didn’t stop a group of decoy carvers from showing off ...

TILGHMAN — A rare Brant decoy, carved by Ira Hudson, Chincoteague, circa 1920-30 will be a live auction item at the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum’s sixth annual fundraiser, Splendor, to be held from 5 to ...

LA CONNER — It was a long and at times tedious and difficult process. Then again, nobody said carving a brant goose from a solid block of cedar was going to be easy. Yet, Eric Flones of Mount Vernon, ...

J.P. HAND sits at his workbench placing a freshly painted rig of 10 brant decoys into a slot bag while we get ready to hunt in the morning. He constructed each brant from three pieces of Atlantic ...

I purchased these decoys at a flea market on Cape Cod in the 1980s and cannot seem to find a match online for the brand name "Hard," which is stamped into the bottom of each. Are you able to assist ...

MOUNT VERNON — The Washington Brant Foundation’s Puget Sound Open Decoy Carving Competition returns Saturday to Burlington’s Maiben Park. The foundation’s annual fundraiser will include carving ...

Pictured here in a photo by Mark Larson is Bill Pinches, whose award-winning decoys are included in an ongoing exhibit at the Clarke Historical Museum titled “Floating Sculptures from Behind the ...