A Woodcarver from Moravia In the quiet corners of Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, within the lands of Moravia, a young boy named Albín Polášek first learned to feel the grain of wood. His early years were shaped by the disciplined hands of an apprentice in Vienna, where the scent of cedar and the precision of carving became his first language. When he arrived in the United States at the age of twenty-two, he brought little more than this trade…