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 ...

Wooden Shaker boxes made from historic honey locust and sycamore trees will be featured at the Shaker Heights Arts & Music Festival June 16-17. The boxes – handcrafted in the traditional Shaker-style ...

Students from Assistant Professor of Art History Dana Byrd’s course American Furniture, By Design recently had a hands-on experience at the Bowdoin Craft Center. Under the tutelage of Bowdoin’s ...

Master Woodworker, Dean Gregory, takes host, Matt Burchett, through the process of creating a shaker box with some thin sheets of wood, a few tools, and some steam. Making is available to stream on ...

Steve Strouse, of Bellefonte, makes Shaker boxes from local salvaged wood. CDT/Nabil K. Mark Steve Strouse does more than make Shaker-style boxes in the workshop behind his Benner Township home. He ...

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 ...

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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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom collaborates with guest John Ryan to craft authentic reproduction Shaker oval boxes. Host Tom McLaughlin collaborates with guest John Ryan to craft authentic reproduction Shaker oval boxes out of ...