Dan Pipkin has been married to Georgia for 48 years; they have 4 children and 9 grandchildren. He graduated from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in 1965. He moved to Arkadelphia and worked with Reynolds Metals Company for 37 years and with BICC Cables and General Cable for 4 years. After he retired, he started a business grinding stumps. He has been drawing with pencil, pen and ink all of his life. He drew cartoons for the Daily Siftings Herald and the Southern Standard through the 1980's and still loves to doodle in cartoons. He started making hiking sticks and wooden mallets about a year ago and then started wood carving on the hiking sticks. Most of the material that he carves has been hickory or oak, but he's branching out to try other woods.