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 ...

They are among the last half-dozen cobblers working in Maine. But despite what many would describe as a quickly dying industry, Roy’s Shoe Shop is as busy as it’s ever been. People from all ...

Regardless, Daubenspeck and a handful of other cobblers are proof that shoe repair is alive and kicking here. Apart from ...