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 ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE — The clamping and thumping sound of a cobbler at work and the biting smell of leather rolls out the pitched door of a newly opened storefront at the top of downtown’s Mathewson Street.