In an era of invisible, cloud-based commerce, Brian’s Welding is an old-school business, full of metal and machinery. This month, the welders went even more retro, gathering around an anvil and ...

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 ...

For many, mention the word “blacksmith” and the image conjures up a big burly man wearing a gritty blackened leather apron swinging a big hammer at a red hot piece of steel. He’s the guy in Henry ...