KITTERY, Maine – Sisters and Shapleigh Middle School students Maddy and Caroline Guay have recently found themselves with an all-encompassing pastime they certainly never expected. Gnome-making.

Hundreds of tiny gnomes have been hidden in nooks and crannies across a Lancashire town by a seven-year-old girl "to make other people smile". The colourful, bearded miniatures, found behind plant ...

Atlantans will try again this month to assemble the biggest gathering of people dressed as garden gnomes that the world has ever seen. The gnome march, a "silly" event, according to organizers, has ...