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Award-winning duck carver, Doug Gibson, celebrated his 98
th birthday on February 28. Gibson has received many awards for his duck carvings, including Ducks Unlimited Carver of the Year and an invitation to the Smithsonian Institute’s Arts and Crafts Festival in Washington DC in 2003. At this event, Gibson demonstrated his methodology as well as his technique and was featured on a German TV news show.
Gibson was born in 1923 in Trappe, Maryland, the ninth of ten children. He spent his childhood on a farm and decided very early in life that he was going to find a way to get off the farm and own his own home. He attended school in Trappe until eighth grade and, upon graduating, walked to Easton to attend high school, a trip that today would take over three hours one way. After graduation from high school, he briefly attended Princess Anne Academy, now known as University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
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Dareise A. Jones | 3/5/2021, 6 a.m. Alan Upshur is currently a real estate professional with Coldwell Banker and co-owner of ABG Easy Hauling. He has received several awards for his work in real estate and was a 2017 NAACP honoree for his book âPrison to Paradise.â Courtesy Photo
Alan Upshur started writing the pages of his book Prison to Paradise during his first incarceration, but it was during the second that he really started committing to living the life he was writing about.
Upshur says he realized âprison is not a location, itâs a mentality.â The mindset of living every day to get by and survive is the cage he believes leads to physical imprisonment.
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