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 ...

Dave Kaiser leans on one of his hand-carved walking sticks in the wood carving shop at his home in Waterloo Monday, March 25, 2013. (BRANDON POLLOCK / Courier Staff Photographer) ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, craftsmen from many different regions of the country used a peculiar form of sculpture — the whittled walking stick — to communicate social signals, convey ...

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 ...

DETROIT LAKES — When Bob Kotaska travels to other states, he often finds a piece of wood suitable for a walking stick. The Detroit Lakes man, a longtime member of the Lake Country Woodcarvers, carved ...

“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 ...