In the poem The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow offers this description of the blacksmith. “His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan. His brow is wet with honest ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Beth Holmberg hammers a piece of metal heated to 2,000 degrees at Maine ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The town of Baek-ha chooses a head of security every three years. The security head Jo-chil is ruthless and there are many complaints against him. Then Ho-saeng challenges Jo-chil and ends up as the ...

Darla Selander is 57 years old, 5-foot-nothing and can do more pushups than you. She also likes red leather jackets, diamond earrings and—above all—her rough, calloused hands. All of these are ...

Blacksmithing has traditionally been a male dominated profession and art, but in Red Hook, an iron woman is breaking down gender norms in this craft. Marsha Trattner runs She-Weld out of her studio in ...

One of Ireland’s last remaining blacksmiths, Jessie Waschkowitz, did not just break the mould - she burned right through it by becoming Ireland’s first woman with Down syndrome to enter the profession ...