Making a walking stick from green wood wasn’t as hard as I thought. My next experiment was to grow a spiral hiking stick. Three years later, it became part of my learning “curve.” ...

These sticks were made for walking — and Detroit Lakes man picked them up all over the country “It’s interesting to see what comes out — you look at something, envision what it could be ...

While his walking sticks have been shipped to people all over the U.S., he was not expecting one to arrive in the hands of the Pope. Bush, who owns two of the sticks, gave one to the Pope.