DOVER — Dan Warther has started carving seven pairs of pliers into a silver maple tree in front of the Ernest Warther Museum & Gardens. He hopes to complete the project on Oct. 30, the 136th birthday ...

Ernest “Mooney” Warther was an esteemed son of Dover, Ohio, and a master wood carver. The work of this turn-of-the-century artist is the foundation for the Tuscarawas County museum in his name. The ...

Most of his ships are 8 to 10 inches long, built to scale (1/8 to 1/16 of an inch on the model for every foot on the real boat), and made out of ebony and antique ivory. The ivory he uses, much of it ...

DOVER ‒ The Ernest Warther Museum and Gardens has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, joining 23 other sites in Tuscarawas County that have earned that designation. "After a lot of ...

That trick became Warther's "calling card," according to Mark, who said his grandfather handed out as many as three-quarters of a million pliers to visiting children over the years. (And that ...

DOVER — Dan Warther has finished carving seven pairs of pliers into a silver maple tree in front of the Ernest Warther Museum & Gardens. He completed and dedicated the work on Saturday, the 136th ...