THE YENAWINE DIORAMAS

Grandpa Makes a Scene: The Yenawine Dioramas
Merle Yenawine was an ordinary country man with an extraordinary talent for carving and tinkering. During his years of retirement, he created over 60 hand-carved scenes which he proudly displayed in his his home for many years. He sold some of the dioramas to the New Albany-Floyd County School Corporation, which were later acquired by the Carnegie Center.

The animated, hand-carved dioramas which Merle Yenawine created depict scenes from the Pilgrims, to the pioneers and the events and places he remembered from his childhood in Georgetown, Indiana.

<< Wheat Threshing: Men in this scene are threshing wheat, which means tossing it through a machine to separate the grain and the hay. After the grain is separated, it is put into sacks to take to the mill.