B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24,1981
Local cowers find enjoyment
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were among the displays of
exquisite wood creations.
Jordan’s display featured a four
foot replica of the Anheuser-Busch
Budweiser wagon, harnessed to a
team of eight miniature
Cyldesdales-
The Lititz carver, whose hobby
bloomed a decade ago after
whittling a letter opener for his
daughter, figured he’d spent
between four and five hundred
hours shaping the Budweiser
team, and their wagonful of in
dividually-carved miniature
barrels. Acrylic paints add
brilliant and realistic color to the
replica.
When asked how he can bear to
part with the items he brings to life
from chunks of softwoods, Jor
dan’s eyes twinkled as he gave
away one of his secrets: “I give
’em to our kids. That way I can
see them again.”
But Jordan is probably best
known, at least in the Lititz area,
for his stylized wood carving of
Christ, arms outstretched in
blessing, that is a fdbal point of the
St. James Catholic Church in
Lititz. Standing nearly seven feet
tall, the sculpture was done in
white pine.
“I just love to carve,” simply
states Bill Porterfield,
professional carver of wildfowl
and birdhfe reproductions in ar
tistic and antiqued style. “And mv
tavonte piece is always the next
one I’m going to do.”
Owners ot the Holtwood artist s
creations range from local duck
hunters to England’s heir to the
throne himself. Prince Charles,
who received a Porterfield
reproduction for a wedding gift.
His “old style antiqued” mallard
reproductions are fast becoming
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Porterfield says, though, that his
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Although he began carving as a
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Like Porterfield, Vonny Boarts,
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“I first became interested when
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A member of the Pennsylvania
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One rather unusual item she’s
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corner of the Wolf Gymnasium,
where Howard Stott was working
chestnut pieces.
Admitting embarrassment
because he sported a bandage, the
only really “occupational hazard”
faced by carvers, Stott patiently
curled bits of a weathered slab of
wood away as a gradeful waterbird
figure emerged from the gnarled,
heavily ridged gray chestnut.
A retired Baltimore school
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perhaps 12 by 30 inches, leaving
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“These figures aren’t carved
and then set into the chestnut
frame,” he emphasizes. "They are
carved out of the piece, intact.”
The American chestnut wood
used by Stott, and by Bill Por
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highly-valued ornamental and nut
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by blight. Carvers seeking
chestnut materials for their art
scour the forested hills near the
Chesapeake Bay, searching for the
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majestic specimens.
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