Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

A Southeast Texas blacksmith is demonstrating a centuries-old craft at the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum, showing visitors how metalworkers shaped tools essential to the region's oil boom.

CORNWALL, Vt. (WCAX) - A rare piece of Vermont’s industrial history is for sale in Cornwall. As Darren Perron reports in this ...

"One day, we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner," penned American author George Singleton. This powerful quote describes individuals such as the late John Franklin Selix ...

ROCKTON—The “clang” of the hammer striking the anvil rang out across the grounds of the Macktown Living History grounds Sunday as people gathered for an old-fashioned blacksmithing demonstration.

Mar 11, 2024 Mar 11, 2024 Updated Apr 15, 2025 ROCKTON — Mike Bost was heating bits of iron in his coal-fired forge Sunday and answering question about the art of blacksmithing. He was demonstrating ...

When archaeologists uncovered a 19th-century blacksmith shop owned by an African American community leader named Tom Cook in northwestern Denton County, they did not just contact his ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...

WATERLOO -- Waterloo blacksmithing from 1856 to the present is the topic of the Tuesday program of the Cedar Valley Historical Society. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the Grout Museum. Light ...

On a whim, I popped into the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild 25th Anniversary Hammer-In. The three-day event took place at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds March 10 - 12. I enjoyed the heck out ...