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Thanks to everyone who came out to compete, watch or help as the Decoy Carvers Guild celebrated Loon Day 2008!  The day was absolutely beautiful and the event was a successful one.  Read more...

For more information, see our Core Sound Rig Contest page.

2008 Decoy Festival Poster Contest -- And the Winner is...

Kelley Nelson! Congratulations to Kelley, the winner of the 2008 Core Sound Decoy Festival Poster Contest for his drawing of a Cinnamon Teal.

This year will be the 21st Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival! The Decoy Festival Poster Contest, now in it’s eighth year, is sponsored by the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild, and gives local artists the opportunity to submit artwork that, if chosen as the winning entry, will be used on Decoy Festival posters, advertising flyers, and apparel.

The featured Carver for 2008 is Houston Lewis, and the featured decoy is the Cinnamon Teal.  As is the custom, a cash prize of $250.00 was awarded to the winning artist.

A very special thank you to Sue Fulcher for all of her hard work every year with this contest! Sue is our Decoy Festival Poster competition Chairperson and she certainly does an outstanding job! As a reminder, Sue has decided that this is her last year organizing the poster contest, so we need someone to take over this contest. Our Board members are not able to take on this task as it would be a conflict of interest during voting. If anyone is interested, please contact Raymond Earp at (252)728-3070.

2007 Decoy Festival & Auction-- Photo Gallery

Here's a great picture gallery of the Decoy Festival and Guild Auction courtesy of Johnnie Dennis. Thanks!

The 2007 Core Sound Decoy Festival was a great success!  We'd like to thank all those who made it great.

Please see our THANK YOU page -- click here

2007 Core Sound Decoy Festival Competion

Special congratulations to Walter "Brother" Gaskill on his Best Of Show award in the IWCA Working Decoy Division for his Ring Neck drake.  Gaskill also took 2nd Best Of Show with a White-winged Scoter drake and 3rd to Gary Joe Bryan for a Hooded Merganser hen. 

For the Decoy Festival Competition results, please see the Competition Information Page. 

2007 Decoy Festival Poster

2007 posters are still available at the Guild headquarters, the Curt Salter Building, on Harkers Island Road. Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild members are entitled to one poster with your membership.  Posters may be purchased by non-members for $2.00 each.  This year we also have a 20th Anniversary Core Sound Decoy Festival poster available.  It shows all the annual posters surrounding a drawing of a carver's hands whittling a decoy head.  The drawing is by Lena Ennis of Ocean, NC and depicts the carving hands of our own Curt Salter.  The poster is a one-of-a-kind treasure and only 1000 were printed.  The cost of the 20th Anniversary poster is $5.00 and they will be available at the Guild headquarters until they are sold out. For more information about our Decoy Festival poster, the 2007 Decoy Festival poster artist, Walter "Brother" Gaskill, and our annual poster competition, please see the Poster Competition page.

Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild
P.O. Box 89 • Harkers Island, NC 28531
phone (252) 838-8818