From the time humans discovered fire, people have gathered around flames. Nathan and Cristy Walker have built a business around that fact. Nathan Walker, a blacksmith, teaches customers at Beach ...

The Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen hosted an outdoor workshop Saturday for those looking to begin the art of blacksmithing. Students learned the basics of forging steel to form hooks and a fireplace ...

COLUMBIA — On a Saturday in April, David Bush was working over a portable coal-fired forge outside the Olympia Mill Village Museum. The coals burned hot. Orange, yellow and blue flames licked towards ...

Blacksmiths were the high technologists of fabrication up until the industrial revolution gained momentum. At its core, this is the art and science of making any needed tool or mechanism out of metal.