Gary Pierce is one of those people. He's 62, and he lives in Long Lake. His "thing" is bowls. Wooden bowls, to be specific. Carved on a lathe, sanded a million times, and hand-oiled with beeswax ...

Artist Eric Hopkins, who carved wooden smelts to affix inside his bowl, in his North Haven studio (left). Artist and Page Gallery owner Colin Page embellishes a bowl (right). An alternative fundraiser ...

Those who pioneered America weren’t just sentimental: they valued a good dough bowl because of their practicality. Wooden ...