MIDDLETOWN - Growing up in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and moving to Monmouth County over 50 years ago, Paul DeSaro always enjoyed woodworking in his spare time. And he successfully turned that hobby into ...

BALTIC – It’s hard to believe a small workshop on an Amish farm just within Coshocton County can produce as many as 700 pens per year. It’s even harder to believe that it’s all the work of one man.

The pens Michael Hughes creates are something to write home about. Working with a lathe in the workshop he built above the garage at his Grandview home, Hughes uses traditional materials such as wood, ...

Two things then happened: he decided he would try his skill at wood turning; and a fellow teacher told him about a certain felled walnut tree in Hatfield. “He said it had been lying there for quite a ...