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Woodcarving show
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[JAN.
4, 2005]
KEOKUK, Iowa -- The Tri-State Woodcarvers Club
of Keokuk is hosting a woodcarving show during Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
Jan. 15-16. The show will be inside the Keokuk Art Center in the River City
Mall, 300 Main St., and show hours are 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. each day.
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Carvers from Iowa, Illinois and
Missouri will be demonstrating and selling. Various types of
woodcarving will be shown, including carving in the round, relief,
stylized, realistic, chip carving, intarsia, pyrographic and scroll
saw work.
There will be a woodcarving contest
both days. Each carver will be given a blank and 90 minutes to
complete the project. These will be on display.
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days will
also feature indoor live eagle presentations by the World Bird
Sanctuary, the Worthen Earth Searchers Rock Show, Native American
activities, the Spratt Family Jubilee and viewing of eagles in the
wild.
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Keokuk is the home of the largest
concentration of American bald eagles on the Mississippi River.
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days is
presented by the Keokuk Area Convention & Tourism Bureau and the Lee
County Conservation Board.
For more information, please call
(800) 383-1219, e-mail
keokukia@interl.net or check the Web at
www.keokuktourism.com.
[News release]
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