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.

He works the sticks with drawknives, spoke-shaves, carving knives and chisels, carving faces and designs into the wood before sanding, staining and sealing the sticks with exterior varnish.

STARTUP -- Walking sticks line two walls in Art King's eclectic workshop in Startup, a hamlet of 676 souls east of Monroe.

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Burton spent about a month creating a walking stick that is embedded with antique buttons, and once made a Native American-themed cane for the oldest Native American Marine, who lives in Bay City.

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 ...

Bush chose to give the Pope a hand-carved walking stick from Dallas resident Roosevelt Wilkerson, a ninth-grade dropout who was homeless until a few years ago.

I want the decoy to be a replica.” He considers carving a hobby, though he likes to refer to it as sculpting. About 18 years ago, Lent’s artistic flair evolved into what he calls walking sticks.

Where: 10115 Audrain Road 657, Vandalia MO 63382 Contact: 314.580.7105; [email protected] Details: Hand-carved walking sticks and canes from local saplings.