Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

A happy obsession is in evidence at the Birds of Vermont Museum — home to 479 life-sized wooden birds expertly carved by Bob Spear. The loon family alone took him 850 hours to carve and paint. Spear founded Vermont’s first chapter of the National Audubon Society in 1962, and the octogenarian is still carving birds. Photo: Matthew Thorsen

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