MICHAEL TSAI / [email protected] Wearing magnifying glasses, Leroy Laney examines his model of the Royal Louis, an 18th-century French ship. At one end of the living room is a wooden replica of ...

When Katie McNally, from Ontario, N.Y., donated nine model boats to the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum in the autumn of 2011, one was held back. It wasn't finished. It was the hull of the model of ...