Walking Stick Carving with Bob Lindemann

Wood carved in the shape of a Bellamy Eagle: a stylized eagle viewed from the front, with its head curving up and to its right; the wings are outspread.

Create  a Eagle-head walking stick with Bob Lindemann.

Spend your morning learning to carve a small Bellamy Eagle head with Bob.

After lunch, Bob will hand out a Striped Maple “Moose Maple” stick for each participant.  You will carve down the top of the stick, and use what you learned in the morning to carve the eagle onto the top of the stick. You can then carve other things on the stick.

Your walking stick will be “green/wet wood” (just cut) so it’s a bit easier to carve. It will need to dry at home over the winter. These can be painted in the spring (after fully drying) at home, or add a name on it, etc.

Open to all but a bit of experience helps, especially when your get to the stick which is more difficult than the practice piece. It is best if you already have a knife and glove; please call the Museum if you do not.

Class is $45 (there is a $10 discount for members)

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/walking-stick-carving-with-bob-lindemann-registration-1044026971777 or use the button below. If the class fills, please join the waitlist.



Max 8 attendees as there are 4 tables, and when we carve a 4′ stick we like to avoid poking each other…

Not the eagle you might have expected

Bob and about 40 friends and members of the Museum celebrated his upcoming 90th birthday with a boat cruise on Lake Champlain. It was wonderful, and many said to me afterwards that this would be a fun thing to do annually.

Our carload arrived really early and we were involved with a rescue operation. Someone saw an eagle land in the water and flap around unable to fly away. The skipper and 4 of us went out looking for this bird, and we searched and searched. We had a net and 4 blankets for the rescue. All we found was a large juvenile gull sitting on a huge dead fish floating on the surface, and he flew off when we came near and then returned as we left. So much for eagles in distress! We had a good laugh.

—from a letter by Ingrid Riga, Curator,  to a sponsor of several of the carving exhibits