PERU, Ind. -- Most people use gourds for fall decorations or crafting. Not Ron Luginbill. Give the 72-year-old Peru resident a gourd, and a few weeks later, he'll have turned it into an exquisitely ...

The gourds had been sawed in half, hollowed out, painted and left to dry in the sun outside Martin Espino’s temporary Manhattan Beach classroom. Inside, he helped his young students sand, stain and ...

This story has been corrected. In front of Bishop Museum grows a laa­mia tree, with branches that reach toward the sky. Look closer and you will see round, green fruit hanging. It is from the fruit of ...

Artists from throughout the state will gather and showcase their exquisite gourd art at the 9th Annual Gourd Art Festival in Knights Landing, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The festival, taking ...

When I attended my college choir reunion in Redlands last month, I had to admit to those who asked, that I hadn”t been singing much in the last 32 years. Since college, I”ve focused much more on ...

Ten people chose gourds from a Whanganui garden and made them into musical instruments with sounds similar to the calls of native birds on Saturday. The one-day Nga Waiata o Hine Pu te Hue workshop ...

In a Belconnen gardening, gourds are being grown to be made into musical instruments. Donna Vaughan moved to the house with large garden in Evatt in 2010. Larry O'Shea, who was born in Coolamon in the ...

The gourd banjos have sound holes on the side and the size of those holes will impact the instrument’s sound. If they’re large the sound will be more booming, but if it’s too large they can actually ...

JIM WIDESS at The Caning Shop in Berkeley insists that I take a gourd home. The author of several books on gourds and gourd crafts, Widess has some large wire bins out back full of tawny, bulbous ...

Such a gardener is Arthur Stephens of the Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra. He’s not looking for chaste gourds; he wants ones that whisper, “I’m a shakere” and “Make me your mbira.” When Stephens ...

Latrobe Valley folk musician Penelope Swales was talking with a guitar maker about the difficulties in being paid for the time spent on the craft before the focus turned to a gourd she had bought from ...