Ansley Travo is a few months into her cobbler training with Mike Derouin, of the former Thee Only Shoe Repair in Rochester. She says she enjoys the community around the shoe repair business and seeing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you can't bear to part with that favorite but well-worn pair of shoes, Jim McFarland, a fourth-generation shoe cobbler, can ...

As a shoe cobbler, Jim McFarland has spent his career with his eyes trained downward on his work. He never expected anyone to care much about his craft. But McFarland, 59, now has more than 1 million ...

If you can't bear to part with that favorite but well-worn pair of shoes, Jim McFarland, a fourth-generation shoe cobbler, can bring them back to life. In the process, he's become an unlikely social ...