Farmhand Stanley Offord’s artistic streak came from out of the blue 50 years ago: no guidance, no fancy art supplies, no art school. “I was just sitting there one day,” he said. He thought of ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Farmhand Stanley Offord's artistic streak came from out of the blue 50 years ago: no guidance, no fancy art supplies, no art school. "I was just sitting there one day," he said.

Some of Pat Acton’s creations, housed in the museum, include the U.S. Capitol and Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing ...

Hour by hour, stick by stick. Many would regard it as a tedious job to glue matchsticks together, wait for them to dry then repeat this process over and over again, but not this model-maker. Over the ...

When he’s not working as a radiologist, Ahmed Hassan likes to relax by building extraordinarily complex models out of matchsticks. He’s made versions of Tower Bridge and the Library of Alexandria.

Editors note: This is an occasional series highlighting people in your neighborhood. George Troester, 72, has no burning desire to set the world on fire. But he does like to play with matches. In fact ...

A man has spent a year making a replica of Notre Dame Cathedral using 12,000 matchsticks. David Harding from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire said he put in about 1,000 hours of work, with each ...

It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...