Several fathers decided to forgo the old standby of golfing on Father’s Day to make walking sticks with their children at Prophetstown State Park instead. Paul Haynes of Lafayette decided to take his ...

Midland’s Don Welch clutched the carved eagle head of his cane in his left hand as he stood talking at the Midland County Fairgrounds’ Gerstacker Center Wednesday. The genial World War II veteran ...

Walking sticks have been a necessary tool ever since shepherds began tending sheep and needed a way to protect against thieves and keep the animals in line. Eventually, the walking stick became a ...

STARTUP — Walking sticks line two walls in Art King’s eclectic workshop in Startup, a hamlet of 676 souls east of Monroe. The walking staffs are hewn from cascara, vine maple and diamond willow. The ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- Call it a carving or sculpture, but it's hard to miss Dave Kaiser's fish. It more closely resembles a fossil than a woodcarving. The artist carved the head and tail from hard, ...

BANGOR TOWNSHIP, MI-- After discovering a tumor on his colon earlier this year, doctors gave Leo Bates about six months to live. That was more than seven months ago. Bates, a 92-year-old World War II ...

“Now that’s a piece of pocket-knife work,” Michael Hall said as he motioned toward a walking stick with wildly intricate layers of carvings in the Columbus Museum of Art. Hall, the museum’s adjunct ...