HENDERSONVILLE - Between the card tables filled to the edge with handmade wooden toys, woodcrafters and nonprofit employees in holiday dress and even a surprise visit from Santa Claus, the Elks Club ...

Christmas Bureau volunteer Janet “Pinki” Culbertson spent the summer assuring her “truckers” that yes, the Christmas Bureau still needs handmade wooden toy trucks to hand out to children ...

When I visit on a Saturday morning in June, Christmas is more than six months away, but already the shelves are filled with hundreds of handmade wooden toys—tops, helicopters, tanks, rocking ...