The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

As time goes by, we forget, as a people, how to do many things we once knew how to do: cobbling shoes, for instance, or dipping candles. And while we become experts at attacking cell phone keypads with our thumbs, we are literally all thumbs when it comes to various creative endeavors that many people were once very good at.

"It's a dying art," we shrug, as if that solves the problem.

But Jeremiah Colladay is not the kind of guy who shrugs away a problem, and when he discovered what he could create with an awl, leather, and his hands and heart, he didn't let the fact that leatherworking is...