CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota — The strings on his fiddle dance with the bow while Gene Van Alstine waltzes with his past. On a summer afternoon, Gene plays fiddle solo in his workshop a few steps from a ...

Jenelle Steele was at a rest note in life’s score. A sculptor living in New York City, she was browsing through violins and cellos at a local shop one day. “I wasn’t happy with my career, and I was ...