WASHINGTON — C.A. Savoy has gotten too good at making canes. “There’s a need. If there wasn’t, we wouldn’t be turning them,” said Savoy, a master woodworker from Fairfax County, Va. “When the kids ...

COLUMBUS — Twenty-five canes lined a small table just outside the community room at Prairie Village Retirement Center. The canes, each topped with a symbolic eagle’s head, took anywhere from hours to ...

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, ...

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'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 ...