If you've ever run out of puff using your breath to start a campfire, imagine what it'd mean to an ancient blacksmith. That ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...