It seemed inevitable that Dan Lentz would become a cobbler. At 12, his first job was shining shoes at Roy's Shoe Shop in Portland, where his father was a cobbler. It turns out carrying on the cobbling ...

Maybe that’s a misstep.” My grandfather was a cobbler and shoemaker, born at the turn of the 20th century in New York. He quit school at the age of 14 to work as an apprentice to his father ...

Cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe, Get it done by half-past two, Stitch it up and stitch it down, Then I'll walk around the town. Cobbler, cobbler mend my boot, Mend it well to fit my foot ...

The cobbling tradition is being carried on by a half-dozen people in Maine, but most of them plan to retire or cut back their hours in the next few years. It seemed inevitable that Dan Lentz would ...