Wood, for Steve “Hawkeye” Hamblin, is always alive. Especially if it’s dead. Understand, Hamblin uses an old-fashioned walking stick when most of the rest of the outdoor world uses trekking poles. If ...

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 ...

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, ...

DALLAS - Roosevelt Wilkerson works alone in a cluttered one-room apartment atop an east Dallas laundry room. The surroundings may be humble, but Wilkerson's fame now extends to the Vatican. On his ...

EAST SELKIRK -- A funny thing happened to visiting Israeli Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon when the province presented him with a walking stick, carved and painted by East Selkirk's Gerry Beck.