But this Tennessee tourist town, where images, wood carvings and sculptures of black bears are literally everywhere, isn’t the only place that claims to be America’s bear capital. A few years ...

ST. GEORGE – Hundreds of hungry restaurant-goers stood outside the Black Bear Diner on Monday watching as the company’s chainsaw bear sculptor, Ray Schulz, carved two 5-foot tall wooden bears.

Why a black bear? Tina Scarbro absolutely loves them, Dave said. “They’re all over our house.” Five other Hodges-carved wooden black bears stand in the yard outside the Scarbros’ brick ...

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The elaborately carved case with owls and branches is not by the carvers of the bear furniture, although it is collected as "Black Forest." I own a cash register that belonged to my great-grandfather.