PERU, Ind. -- Most people use gourds for fall decorations or crafting. Not Ron Luginbill. Give the 72-year-old Peru resident a gourd, and a few weeks later, he'll have turned it into an exquisitely ...

Artists from throughout the state will gather and showcase their exquisite gourd art at the 9th Annual Gourd Art Festival in Knights Landing, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The festival, taking ...

When I attended my college choir reunion in Redlands last month, I had to admit to those who asked, that I hadn”t been singing much in the last 32 years. Since college, I”ve focused much more on ...

Ten people chose gourds from a Whanganui garden and made them into musical instruments with sounds similar to the calls of native birds on Saturday. The one-day Nga Waiata o Hine Pu te Hue workshop ...

In a Belconnen gardening, gourds are being grown to be made into musical instruments. Donna Vaughan moved to the house with large garden in Evatt in 2010. Larry O'Shea, who was born in Coolamon in the ...

When you think of a gourd, do you think squash or pumpkin? How about musical instruments, storage vessels or hand-made art? The hard-shelled gourd is all of those things, and so much more — and the ...

Latrobe Valley folk musician Penelope Swales was talking with a guitar maker about the difficulties in being paid for the time spent on the craft before the focus turned to a gourd she had bought from ...