For at least three generations, youngsters looked forward to a shopping trip with a parent to the former Jim’s House of Shoes on North Street in Pittsfield. It was not so much for new shoes, but an ...

When I was a kid, getting a new pair of Buster Browns was always a big deal. And although much has changed in the world of children’s shoes, and the world at large, since then — in this house, a new ...

A horse named after an old children’s shoe company brand gets a change of footwear from itinerant blacksmith Bill Miller at Sunnyside Farm in Tinley Park. Miller prepares and attaches custom-made ...