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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Civil War blacksmith A re-enactor at the living history encampment outside Gettysburg's Seminary Ridge Museum demonstrates the skills of a Civil War blacksmith, who would follow the army with his ...

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 ...

HANCOCK — Patrick O'Donnell earns a living using 21st-century technology, but has forged a passion for 19th-century metalworking. The Pittsfield resident, an instructor at Berkshire Community College, ...

Mount Nittany Middle School student Maeve Flanagan stokes the furnace as Eric Johnson heats the wrought-iron ladel in the Boalsburg blacksmith shop during the 2016 Boalsburg Memorial Day festival.

From “Farming in Northeast Lower Michigan, 1910-1960: The Way We Used to Do It,” by Herman Lunden Miller. Lunden’s book, which is available at Saturn Booksellers, 133 W. Main St., explores growing up ...

CORSICANA - The blacksmith shop at Pioneer Village is back in business after a restoration project that included dismantling the entire building and fitting many of the original logs in the 1890 shop ...