Cord said the village blacksmiths make a lot of souvenir items that can be bought in the visitors center gift shop. This ...

If you ever wanted to learn about blacksmithing, Samuel Dembitsky is your man. “If you want to know something, start asking questions,” the tall elderly man with a burly mustache quipped. “And if I ...

Photo by Peter Cihelka /The Free Lance-Star via AP Justin Jennings fashions a chef's knife at Black Horse Forge in Stafford County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Steve Hotz found his groove in ...

A blacksmithing workshop is being held at Historic Washington State Park. “Take part in a hands-on class covering the basic ...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Shortly after the Industrial Revolution, the need for a blacksmith went away, and the craft is now pretty much just a thing of the past. A school in Tucson, however, is trying to ...

Walt Hull, who lives in Pleasant Grove south of Lawrence, has been a blacksmith for more than 15 years and creates fences, gates, tables and more from iron. Hammers clang and sparks fly. Heat and ...

When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

A nonprofit in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has found a unique way to support veterans through blacksmithing — an age-old craft using iron and steel. Steve Hotz founded Black Horse Forge after using ...

The village smithy celebrated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 poem about blacksmiths glows again in Washington-area workshops lit by flaming forges. Blacksmithing is enjoying a revival as ...

'Exhausting, scary and daunting' are the words Eungella resident Shane Robinson uses to describe the bushfires that ravaged his town in late 2018. Bushfires tore through the Eungella rainforest in ...

Wrath of the Lich King has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for blacksmiths. It's passed through a few tunnels of high importance, then settled onto a kind of vestigial relevance before finally ...