CLINTON — Anyone who has ever wondered how poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s village blacksmith managed it can take a turn with bellows, hammer and anvil next spring at the Red Mill Museum Village.

Mike Whitmore shuffled thoughtfully across the fine gravel of his shop floor toward the bellows. In the coal pan, a docile red glow belies the temperatures reached after a few hard pulls on the ...

FREETOWN — Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Anyone who’s ever watched a blacksmith lay a piece of hot iron on a big anvil and slowly hammer the glowing metal into something useful ...

Blacksmith Anthony Tratnyek uses bellows to stoke a fire in the hearth Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in the re-creation of the 1750 blacksmith shop in the Colonial Industrial Quarter in Bethlehem. The ...

There is a ritual and subtle rhythm to Michael Murphy’s every movement as a blacksmith — in his 1800s style workspace at the Tallahassee Museum, he dances between the anvil and the bellows with tongs ...

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GOSHEN — One of the newest 4-H clubs is dedicated to an ages-old craft. An Elkhart County 4-H blacksmithing club was formed in 2022, the same year the little shop near Heritage Park was restored. The ...

DOTHAN, Ala. -- The steel rod glowed bright orange in the coals, stoked by air from the 19th century-era bellows. Steve Lowery picked up the rod with the scorching end and placed it on an anvil, then ...

It’s a terrible day: Thanks be to God. Michael Doyle’s grandfather would say those words coming home soaked to the bone after plowing his fields in a cold rain with the help of the neighbors and their ...

Like chaff from a threshing-floor. One of the great memories of growing up in Grand Bank during the 1950s was to "look in the open door" (split door – the bottom half was usually closed) and watching ...