For nearly 40 years, 72-year-old Stephen Miller’s career has brought him close to the trees. Since cofounding the nonprofit Islesboro Islands Trust in 1985, he’s been the org’s executive director, ...

It was quite the fashion statement during the 19th Century for a man to carry a cane. Just as it was trendy for a woman to carry a parasol, the stylish young man had a walking stick as part of his ...

A walking stick once owned by Irish republican leader Michael Collins has sold for more than five times its estimated value at an auction in Northern Ireland. The phone buyer, from the Republic of ...

Walking sticks have come a long way from their humble origins as mere support tools to becoming significant style statements. While today they are often associated with the elderly or those requiring ...

An elderly couple in Illinois heroically prevented a home burglary by using a treasured Irish walking stick to fight off their intruders in November 2020. Dan Donovan, 81, and his wife Barbara, from ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, craftsmen from many different regions of the country used a peculiar form of sculpture — the whittled walking stick — to communicate social signals, convey ...

LITTLE ROCK — Many urban hikers add an old-fashioned piece of gear to their hitting-the-road getup of athletic shoes, gloves, high-tech sunglasses and jackets with easy-access pockets to hold phones ...