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 ...

Dell Braunberger started carving wood because he needed a hobby. “I don’t like watching TV,” the 77-year-old Chippewa Falls man said as he whittled away at a small chunk of wood. That piece would ...

Jack York, an avid wood carver is using his carving talent to make eagle head canes from basswood for wounded soldiers returning from the War on Terror. York carves ...

Walt Wharton said he’d be working out back, so I went through the garden gate into a charming backyard to find him. He was in a woodshop with a gambrel roof and a hand-carved commercial shingle that ...

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, ...