How much wood would a wood carver carve if a woodcarver could carve wood? Quite a bit, actually, but the members of the Batavia Woodcarvers club restrained themselves to carve only a five-foot tall ...

George H. Meyer says he collects canes; in reality, he collects skinny sculpture. A bookish, earnest, Harvard-educated lawyer in Birmingham, Mich., Mr. Meyer, 64, is the sort of man who might be ...

For the first time after a three-year Covid pandemic disruption, military members of a wood carving club presented eagle-headed, insignia-emblazoned walking canes to combat-wounded veterans. Roughly ...

Ruben Archuleta walks into a bedroom of his Pueblo home which he calls his "Medal of Honor" room. No, Archuleta is not a Medal of Honor recipient himself, though he did serve in the U.S. Navy. Rather, ...

VALPARAISO — John Ohler's one-of-a-kind hand-carved cane was back home Friday night. A Times reader saw the story in Friday's newspaper about how Ohler, 88, had left his cane in a shopping cart Oct.

Bryant Shephard's canes are his calling card. He says thank you, offers support for an unsteady gait, or lets you know he's glad to have met you with a hand-carved cane that's art and function. At 77, ...

VALPARAISO — John Ohler carved his life into a cane. There's his birthdate — 4/25/29; the date he married Marilyn — 12/23/50; the places he's lived, including Sumter, South Carolina; Roswell, New ...

Imagine losing your most prized possession. That one item that means the world to you--and is impossible to replace. For John Ohler, that item is his cane. And for the last two weeks-- he worried that ...