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.

Blacksmith Anthony Tratnyek uses bellows to stoke a fire in the hearth Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in the re-creation of the 1750 blacksmith shop in the Colonial Industrial Quarter in Bethlehem. The ...

Mike Whitmore shuffled thoughtfully across the fine gravel of his shop floor toward the bellows. In the coal pan, a docile red glow belies the temperatures reached after a few hard pulls on the ...

FREETOWN — Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Anyone who’s ever watched a blacksmith lay a piece of hot iron on a big anvil and slowly hammer the glowing metal into something useful ...

HANCOCK — Patrick O'Donnell earns a living using 21st-century technology, but has forged a passion for 19th-century metalworking. The Pittsfield resident, an instructor at Berkshire Community College, ...

The M.M. Sherman Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shop was likely one of the most frequented destinations in town during its 1800s heyday, when just about everyone needed horses shoed and wagons mended. The ...