It’s pretty calm and quiet around Russ Dedekind’s West Lawn home, even though he and his brother share it with hundreds of wooden ducks in various stages of becoming decoys. They must be pretty good ...

Last year's winner in the World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl category, "Livingstone's Turaco" by Thomas Horn. Ward Museum Last year's winner at the World ...

When Tom Modin of Kearney goes duck hunting, he is surrounded by his own artwork — decoys he has carved and hand-painted. Brent Frazee [email protected] Tom Modin was putting his artwork on display.

Check those closets again. Try the space behind the furnace, the rafters of the garage. Surely, there has to be an old battered wood duck decoy in there somewhere. Maybe at Aunt Tillie’s house, in one ...