"You'll wear that off, you'll not wash it off," he cautioned as he stood in front of the walnut hulling machine at Bill's Auto Salvage Yard, where 62-year-old Bill Ward sells auto parts and mini ...

Four-year-old Collin Wilkie made sure that every last walnut in the bed of his parents’ pickup was thrown into the hopper that conveyed the walnuts to the hulling machine. “He’s a good helper,” said ...