Earl Martin retired from Goddard Space Flight Center as a lead aircraft engineer and mechanic in 1991. He was a veteran having served in the Navy during WWII. He turned his woodworking hobby into a small business. Most of his creations were toys but he also made nativities. We first saw his work at the Christmas bazaar at Ss. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church Holiday Arts and Crafts Festival. We returned for several years buying one of his nativities at each one. We discovered another connection-he was the father of Sandy Hemphill. At that time Sandy's husband, David, was not our Pastor (he became our Pastor in 1997).
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| Stable by Earl Martin. Ceramic figures by Carole |
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| I purchased the patterns for the two white nativities and asked Earl to make them for me. |
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| The first nativity we bought from Earl Martin |
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| This nativity music box was Earl's prototype for future ones. He made it from a pew he purchased from his church and he gave it to us one Christmas. |
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| This is designed as a toy. Each piece has a magnet and there is a corresponding magnet glued to the base. Earl's wife, Peggy, did the painting. |
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| A puzzle. All of the pieces fit into the stable which can also be used as a base for putting the pieces. |
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