Keith Dickson pulled a thin slab of cherry wood from a pile wrapped tight with plastic and placed it in a long rectangular box filled with boiling water. “Some nights I bend 50 to 100 bands of wood,” ...
The chanting should have given it away. At 11:35 p.m., 10 minutes before Zombie Shaker Box's scheduled start time, restless, metal-loving fans crowded the stage and began chanting for the band to ...
K eith Griffith does his best work with Jack Johnson songs playing in the background. He’s tried rock and roll, pop and even jazz, but nothing gets his creative juices flowing quite like Johnson’s ...
ASHBURNHAM — Bob Brennan started making Shaker oval boxes to see if he could. Now it’s become a way of life. “You can make anything, any type of box,” he said Friday. Shaker oval boxes were made by ...
WAYNESVILLE — Local retired teacher and shaker box maker, John P. Kerns, knows it takes more than four pieces of wood to make a shaker box, it takes passion. Kerns, 66, opened his Shaker Box store in ...
Were there left-handed Shaker craftsmen? Collectors have noticed that the famous Shaker boxes were made with "fingers" that point right or left. The Shakers are a religious order with communities in ...
PITTSFIELD — Want to celebrate an inspirational president this weekend? You can celebrate the legacy of the President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter, ahead of Monday's holiday, while also ...
A coffee table based on the "restraint and detailing" of a bentwood box associated with Shaker folklife has launched at Maison&Objet, which begins today in Paris. London design studio Pinch designed ...