displayed 46 hand-carved canes at the junior high’s hobby program in 1940; and made and gave away walking sticks made from wood from Kearney’s first school building and also from a Christmas tree.

Schleuter, otherwise known as “Missouri Mike,” owns and operates Missouri Mike’s Walking Sticks and Canes. A semi-retired photographer, Schleuter never imagined that his love for the ...

On his recent trip to the Vatican, President Bush presented Pope Benedict XVI with one of Wilkerson's hand-carved walking sticks inscribed with the Ten Commandments. "I'm just dumbfounded," said ...