He carved birds and animals that he sold or traded for supplies and evidently a lot of liquor. Local bars wound up with many of his painted carvings. Most of the animals he carved were made from ...

“It was written they came one by one” reads the sign above the creche in Walter Squyres’ Bethlehem home. “I call it the second Christmas,” says Squyres, “when all the animals came to visit the Christ ...

Folk artist Isaac Smith typically woke up at his Oak Cliff home around 7 a.m. and drank a beer before picking up an ax and a knife to spend the rest of his day carving animals out of wood. Smith, 72, ...