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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlinville was the place for pinging on Saturday as more than a dozen traditional artisans descended on the community for the annual Illinois Valley Blacksmiths Hammer-In at the Macoupin County ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...

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 ...

OCALA, Fla. – It’s a celebration at a national historic landmark right in Central Florida’s backyard. If you haven’t visited Fort King in Marion County within the last year, you’ll notice a new ...

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 ...

Adlai Stein didn't know what weapon he would be making on "Forged in Fire," a History show that challenges top blacksmiths from throughout the country. He was confident, though, that his 25 years in ...