There’s neither a chestnut tree and nor a mighty man operating the forge at Villiger’s Blacksmith Shop in Metamora. The smithy here is a female–a 5-foot-3-inch female with an MBA in manufacturing from ...

In an age of horse-drawn transport, the local farrier was as essential to the high street as the petrol filling station is today. But although it’s tempting to think of the smithy in medieval terms, ...

The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands. That fellow Longfellow never seems to get anything straight. He wrote a poem eulogizing Paul Revere when right here in his own back yard was ...