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 ...

a third-generation cobbler and owner of Cobblestone Shoe Repair in St. Louis. Protecting and taking care of your shoes are critical to helping them last longer. “Prevention is less costly than repair, ...

The third-generation owner of Rockford’s last full-service cobbler shop has died. Jeff Antinucci, 58, who ran Charles Street ...

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

As more consumers choose to replace rather than repair, some Mainers are preserving the craft of fixing what’s broken.

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 ...