Hope Brown and Glen Brown with carvings

Hope and Glen Brown learned to carve from instructor Murrial Martin at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1939 and 1940. They sold their carvings through the school's woodcarving cooperative which became known as the Brasstown Carvers. They created their own patterns and made them available to the Folk School for other carvers. Glenn is known for his geese, guinea fowl and many other birds. Hope, responsible for the design of most of their patterns, designed and carved everything from cardinals to mockingbirds, dolphins to Dobermans, and fish to tigers. This photograph was taken from a booklet published by the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1990 titled "The Brasstown Carvers" with text by Bill Biggers, photographs by Werner Kahn and Bill Bigger