Ed Carpenter is sitting at The Spark Coffee on Main Street in Speedway, and he’s talking about his magnificent obsession — winning the Indianapolis 500. He is Ahab and this race, the Greatest ...

Zhang Shengwu completed a successful dive in his 2-ton, 40,000-yuan homebuilt submarine — one of a new batch of countryside ...

Ford’s lenience came to an abrupt end when he sold Northup to a carpenter in 1842. The carpenter, in turn, sold him once more to plantation owner Edwin Epps for $1,500.

Visitors can watch Mr. Guzmán weave in an open-air workshop while they peruse his collection of best-selling ruanas and bed throws, which sell for 20,000 Argentine pesos (around $120), and take a ...

Garland Wood took a summer job as a carpenter at Colonial Williamsburg four decades ago because he wanted to put on “funny clothes.” “It was a long summer job — 40 years,” he jokes.