After graduating from high school, he became a show salesman and later, worked for the Coca-Cola Company in Columbus, Ohio.

He taught Almon how to carve wood and run the gallery space that Pierce operated out of his barber shop.

When Almon returned to Georgia, he became an ordained minister, a nondenominational evangelist, and a police dispatcher.

[3] When Almon returned to Tallapoosa to restore his family's home, he converted the basement into a private studio.

"His preliminary sketches would be transferred to softwood panels and carved in low relief with pocketknives and chisels.