New life is coming out of old trees in Sacramento. A foothills woodcarver is finishing a prototype for a collectible wood baseball bat made from a tulip poplar loved by generations as it stood on state Capitol grounds for 129 years. Two Mendocino brothers created a seven-foot-tall abstract tree sculpture from another part of the tree. And a Sacramento sculptor is working on a free-form chair from a California black walnut that marked the site of an old wagon trail for at least 140 years. The wood remains of these old trees are being turned into art, furniture and other new projects to benefit the Legacy Trees Project. Sponsored by nonprofit Sacramento Education Events for Art, the proj

Adam Bradley sat on a K Street sidewalk carving a wise old man out of a red cedar log early this week. A crowd grew while the 29-year-old wood sculptor detailed the face with a Dremel cutting tool and explained that art like his is being made possible through the Legacy Trees Project. That was just one of the carving demos he did in Midtown all week to highlight a Second Saturday Art Walk fundraiser for the fledgling project. Art by Bradley and four others -- James Cooper, Judith Monroe, Jaime Acosta and Phil Myers -- will be raffled and sold in a silent auction from 6 to 9:30 p.m. June 13 in an upstairs courtyard at 1801 L St. The Legacy Trees Project is an artist-organized, collective