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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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