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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...