Rob Schubert The Daily News Jan 22, 2020 Jan 22, 2020 0 – Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect that Harvey Williamson is the historian of the Stella Historical Society, not the ...

The rhythmic plink-plink-plink of hammers striking red-hot iron punctuated the sound of 1960s garage rock coming from a distant stereo. A few hours later, five men walked out of Cooper’s Forge on the ...

While modern technology offers improvements — such as gas-powered forges, pneumatic hammers, and advances in metallurgy — Luark prefers to use the old-fashioned techniques and tools of traditional ...

Pake McNally is a throwback. At age 30, he is easily one of the youngest full-time blacksmiths in the state – thriving in an occupation considered obsolete more than a century ago. McNally uses the ...

Blacksmith James Roth, of Putnam Township, wants to keep his trade alive by passing along skills to others. Roth, who does blacksmithing out of his Hell Creek Forge workshop near Hell, started taking ...