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,” ...

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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 ...

LERNA - Cathy Spallinger was proud of 19th century "Tupperware" she created over the weekend. She had all six of her wooden Shaker boxes pieced together and ready to put each to good use in her ...

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 ...