The writer Andrew Solomon recounts his enduring love for the cheerful little heroes of Swedish folklore, handed down from his late mother. By Andrew Solomon First, advent calendars; then gnomes; then ...

MOBILE, Alabama -- Though some people might call what Ron Johnson does in his spare time “whittling,” he calls it carving. The difference between the two, he explained, is that in whittling, the ...

Windowsills full of flowers, carved wooden doors, garden gnomes. A new book shows the style of ranch houses from California to New Mexico In America between the 1950s and 1960s, especially in the ...

NOTE: This post first ran Oct. 1, 2018. This version has been updated. There's a lot of weird stuff around the Lehigh Valley. There’s a giant gnome carved from a tree, for instance. And not one, but ...