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 ...

CONROE, TX -- It made Cynthia Murphy Watson's Christmas when she learned that her mother's hand-carved cane had not been stolen like she feared, but had in fact been sitting in the Veterans Affairs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...