An elderly woman at Walnut Terrace uses overturned paint buckets as a seat at a Raleigh, NC, bus stop. Most GoRaleigh buses don’t have benches or shelters.

Students play during recess as fourth graders from left, Annabella Messina, Lily Elliott, Emily Vance and Brinley Hampton sit on one of the friendship benches at Tice Creek School in Walnut Creek ...

The phrase “Friendships Bloom On Our Buddy Bench” is both a proclamation and a statement of purpose. “Whenever somebody needs a buddy, they can sit on the bench,” said Rinoa Murr, the 11-year-old who ...

GUEST: These are two Sam Maloof walnut woven benches... that I obtained from my aunt and uncle's estate. My uncle was a renowned, uh, modernist architect in Riverside, California.