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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ted Rumsey had done some wood carving throughout the years. But the pastime became a passion in 2000, when he was helping at a Boy Scout camp. “All the boys had a knife and a stick, and they didn’t ...