HART -- John and Callee Griswold couldn't go back in history. So, they are recreating it -- one sword, one shield and one crossbow at a time. It is laborious work, but the Griswolds, owners of Iron ...

Ten years ago Benjamin Young was found in a field trampled by cows and close to death. He recalls fixing a water trough at a dairy farm that day before riding off to the next job on a motorcycle. The ...

The smell of heat filled the forge and clung to throats like soot on a chimney. Ward Brinegar maneuvered the blowtorch like a paint brush, carefully applying the fire within the marked spot on a piece ...

MONTEREY — The metallic ping-ping-ping echoing these days across this village is the sound of rebellion. Follow the sound and you'll come upon a tall, lean, soot-smeared man set against a backdrop of ...

With a leather apron draped around his neck and tied at the waist, Norm Davis slides an iron rod into the burning coals in the forge in his blacksmithing shop at his northwest Topeka home. Davis ...

LOWELL — Carl Close Jr. is an expert blacksmith with an artist’s soul. He turns out simple nails and historical tools at demonstrations and Revolutionary War reenactments. He hand-forges and sculpts ...