AS A KID growing up in Athens, Alabama, Brandon Bailes used to spend a lot of time in his grandfather’s woodshop. His grandpa would cut a block of cedar for Bailes, then sketch something on it—the ...

The patter of soft conversation drifted around the table. Scissors snipped. Thread was wrapped. Deer hair was cut and stacked. It was another subzero night in Duluth, but beneath the poster-sized ...