Harrington's Michaelson adds to Ritzville Art Center

The Ritzville Art Center now has a wider variety of interesting items, thanks in part to David Michaelson of Harrington. He has been making model airplanes by hand for several years, lovingly created from “rescued woods” that would ordinarily be destined for the landfill or the fireplace.

One of the items is a wood and plywood model of a British World War II airplane used extensively in Europe to harass the Nazis and on the Pacific Coast to shoot down Japanese destructive weather balloons. The plane was without armor and carried little or no armament because it was the fastest airplane in the...