Editor’s note: Every Thursday during Black History Month, the Today section will profile a historic figure who shaped the future of the Cape Fear region. In 1859, Alfred Hargrave, a 40-year-old slave, ...

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal’s hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- Randy Dack still remembers every detail from Sept. 11, 2001. Dack, the blacksmith at Grand Island's Stuhr Museum, vividly remembers hearing, "they just hit the World Trade Center ...

HARTSVILLE — Three things — a fire, a fashion and a fondness — account for the final change of Raymond A. Whitney's career from horseshoes to automobiles and back to horseshoes. Brought up by his ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - Horseshoes, and the people who shod them, have gone hand-in-hand with the rise and fall of nations since time immemorial. Historical evidence of horseshoes and horse husbandry exists ...

Lucky are those who land in the horse carriage driven by Jan Michnej. The 60-year-old blacksmith-turned-carriage driver uses the skills he honed years ago to leave his customers with an unforgettable ...

Fred Christen, the blacksmith at Dallas Heritage Village, has an unusual Christmas request and is hoping some horse lovers might be able to help. He's in dire need of old horseshoes and horseshoe ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Randy Dack still remembers every detail from that fateful day. What he was doing. Where he was standing. Where the messenger stood when he came to tell him the news. For Dack, the ...

Blacksmith Mike Carson of Woodland, often seen plying his trade at Sutter”s Fort, will mark his 13th year at the Dixon May Fair, demonstrating the tools of his trade: A hammer, anvil and a hot fire.