Email a Friend

DIY Network Comes To Fox Chapel Publishing to Film Television Special

East Petersburg , PA: On Sunday, August 1 2004, a film crew from the DIY Network—a sister network of HGTV—spent the day at the offices of Fox Chapel Publishing to film the first of a five-part series on the cable network about woodcarving.

East Petersburg-based Fox Chapel Publishing was contacted by the network to help produce the program, according to Mark Vogel, Fox Chapel's Marketing Manager. “We publish the leading magazine on woodcarving: Wood Carving Illustrated , as well as more than 200 woodworking books, many of them on woodcarving,” Vogel said. “The network asked us to recommend five of our authors to be featured on a program about woodcarving, which we did.”

The five-part series will introduce a different type of carving on each show. The first show will feature Lancaster 's own Chris Lubkemann—the author of a new book from Fox Chapel: “ Whittling Twigs & Branches.” Lubkemann will demonstrate his unique style of carving on the program, which can produce fascinating creations from a simple twig.

For local media wishing to cover this event, the best time to come is between 1 and 3 p.m. on August 2. For more information, call Mark Vogel at 717-560-4703, ext. 33.

Author Chris Lubkemann was born of missionary parents in Brazil and remembers his earliest attempts at woodcarving at age seven, deep in the Amazon rain forest of eastern Peru . His appreciation for wood and love for making things from it never stopped. His first forked-branch rooster hatched between his junior and senior years at college, and the hours spent whittling away actually helped pay for his education. Chris' work in the ministry has taken him to many foreign countries and throughout the United States. Wherever he has gone, he has always had a pocketknife close by with a handful of twigs and branches. So, the simple craft picked up more than 37 years ago continues to be shared and passed on to people from all over the world.

Headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn. , DIY is a sister network of HGTV, Food Network and Fine Living. DIY is distributed in 22 million U.S. households and operated by Scripps Networks. DIY is wholly owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP), which also operates the Food Network, HGTV and Fine Living, a new network which launched in 2002.

Fox Chapel Publishing Co., Inc. is one of the nation's leading resources for woodworking books and magazines, and employs nearly 30 people from its restored 19th century headquarters in East Petersburg, PA. Fox Chapel publishes two magazines: Wood Carving Illustrated and Scroll Saw Workshop; more than 200 book titles; and distributes more than 1,000 woodworking books from other publishers around the world. Their web site is www.FoxChapelPublishing.com.

###

Contact Fox Chapel Publishing's Public Relations Department for media inquiries, author interviews, review copies, image or materials requests: (Media, Academia/Education, & Retailers only)

Public Relations Department
Fox Chapel Publishing
1970 Broad Street
East Petersburg, PA 17520
PublicRelations@FoxChapelPublishing.com
800-457-9112