When John Cobb hears a chain saw in the neighborhood, it’s a call to action. What possibilities might be lurking in a neighbor’s spoils? Cobb, like other artists and artisans who work in wood, is ...

It starts as 48x4x8 block of wood, but when Norman Altman sits behind his work bench in Syracuse, he sees Santa Claus in the raw material. Each year, Norman Altman hand-carves and paints wooden Santa ...