John Gowdy, who started building sand castles with his own kids about 25 years ago, has all the credentials (and then some) to show you how to build a perfectly good one with your kids. He even ...

Some of us are happy at the beach with our overturned sand buckets creating various mounds. Dig a trench around the sand mounds, and voila! A castle and moat. That’s nowhere near good enough for a ...

GRAND HAVEN, MI -- Four grown men can make a better sand castle than all of the children in Michigan. Castle Grande, a Saturday event sponsored by the Grand Haven Chamber of Commerce brought a ...

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 ...

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(Inside Science) -- Beach-goers know that sand castles crumble almost as quickly as they are built, but scientists have long faced the mystery of why similarly-constructed earthen buildings can stand ...