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.

Join us as we take you through the fascinating process of blacksmithing a ball peen hammer. Watch the raw metal transform ...

Any way you look at it, blacksmithing is a punishing trade. Heavy tools, a red-hot forge, flying sparks, and searing metal all exact a toll on the smith’s body unless precautions are taken. After ...

Demonstrator Tim Lemmon pounds a red-hot piece of metal into a horseshoe during the Hammer-In in Carlinville on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. Tim Lemmon begins fabricating a horseshoe during the Hammer-In ...

The Goat N Hammer is an Atlanta-based forge, complete with a few blacksmiths, a roaring fire and anvil. It's been quietly building a following for its bladesmithing and knife grinding instruction ...

Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton shop sits in a remote corner of the city, well away from the State House and the rest ...

Pieces of red-hot steel were shaped into close to 200 useful or decorative items Saturday as area blacksmiths gathered for the annual Hammer-In event at Laughlintown’s Compass Inn Museum. Visitors ...

On a whim, I popped into the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild 25th Anniversary Hammer-In. The three-day event took place at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds March 10 - 12. I enjoyed the heck out ...

The Deanery Project in Lower Ship Harbour, N.S., will be host to a lot of heat and hammering on Saturday. Blacksmiths from across the Maritimes will hold a traditional hammer-in event where techniques ...

A shower of orange sparks crackled from the end of an iron rod as Steve Gensheimer hammered it into form atop an anvil. But he was only able to get in a few smacks before the glow would fade. Then it ...