Norman Hardy took a rag and polish to the 9-year-old’s cowboy boots, which were caked with dirt after a longhorn cattle show earlier in the day. The shoe shiner scrubbed and buffed the tan leather as ...

DENVER — When you walk through the doors of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, you smash into a wall of smells - you'll get whiffs of fresh popped kettle corn blended with loads of manure and ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Shoe shining has defied time and seasons. In every town and hamlet, shoe shiners are busy ...

Some of the best years of my teenhood were spent in the Air Training Corp, or ATC. A youth club for air cadets, we were taught everything from the principles of flight and archery in between flying ...