Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...

HANOVER – Ray Larsen was in his mid-30s, an award-winning journalist who had shared a Pulitzer Prize, when he spotted the object that changed his life. A forge in a friend’s yard sparked a midlife ...

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

Blacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge supplied the tools that made ...

Hand-forged tongs made using traditional blacksmithing methods. A detailed workshop process showing metal shaping, heating, ...

COLUMBIA — On a Saturday in April, David Bush was working over a portable coal-fired forge outside the Olympia Mill Village Museum. The coals burned hot. Orange, yellow and blue flames licked towards ...

Dec 21, 2012 Dec 21, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — He shares a garage with a landscaper and is only two months into his new business, but Columbia resident Justin Tattitch is excited to be on ...

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 ...

Courtesy photo / Dave Petit works some metal on his anvil. Dave Petit describes his innate curiosity as “a dog with a bone” when he discovers a new research fixation, whether it be Civil War ...

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...