I stopped by to work my Labrador retriever, Tinker, and visit with Jerry Simmons at his workshop and office. He is a professional dog trainer who lives in Castle Hayne. He trained my Labrador ...

Around 1910, when Newburyport cabinetmaker Charles Safford was carving his wooden decoy of a sleeping Canada goose, the idea it could one day sell for a king's ransom probably never crossed his mind.

A rare, 19th century hand-carved goose decoy that once plied Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River before being sold in Argentina, and considered by some to be a floating sculpture, is going on the auction ...