PCToday Photo Gallery - National Symbol Takes Flight From Instructor's Workshop

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Gene Landon, who shares his world-renowned expertise of 18th-century woodworking techniques as a continuing-education instructor at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently created a life-sized – and lifelike – bald eagle that eventually will be displayed in Philadelphia's Constitution Hall. The replica was impressively carved and detailed from the wood of the nation's last "Liberty Tree," a tulip poplar under which colonists planned the American Revolution. The tree graced the campus of St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., before the winds of Hurricane Floyd leveled it in September 1999. The painstaking creation was shipped earlier this month from Landon's Montoursville workshop, where the master craftsman now turns his attention to a commissioned bust of George Washington.
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— Photos by Tom Wilson, news bureau writer/editor

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