As building blocks go, pancakes fall low on the list. But a successful sand castle, I learned, starts with pancakes. A tall stack. Turns out those plastic molds I had packed with sand — only to dump ...

When we think of the word sustainability, we typically picture forests, climate or wildlife. We’re keenly aware of the need to manage these natural resources wisely if we expect them to last. We ...

Janel Hawkins spends hours building intricate structures — and destroys them not long after. Such is the life of a professional sand castle builder. As the owner of Sand Castle University, she spends ...

Jose Luis Gutierrez of Modesto builds a sand castle on Crown Beach in Alameda on Thursday, with a spit of land that is part of the city beyond and the skyline of San Francisco in the background. Crown ...

As professional sand sculptor Lucinda Wierenga was at work on her 8-foot-tall, instrument-themed sand castle, a kid came by and called it the “House of Rock,” which is how the award-winning sand ...

When Viola Connelly and her friend Casey Metzler, both 10, enter the annual Saltaire Sandcastle Contest on Fire Island, the girls from Manhattan and Brooklyn choose a timely theme — they craft an ...

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It wouldn’t be summer if sand sculptors of all ages weren’t competing along Revere Beach. Massachusetts fire chief facing heat after his private company received $5M+ in town contracts ...

One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. This story of a boy building sandcastles on the shores of the Issyk-Kul Lake becomes a documentary ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sand Castles SAND CASTLES is a Kingdom and Castle Building Real-Time Strategy / 4X game with a full 3D Graphics Engine. The game supports up to 6-players ...