The sweltering heat had finally moved on and Giant Tick season was coming to a close (not kidding, they are HUGE here), when I decided to fire up my hacked together blacksmith forge made out of an old ...

There he was, fresh out of graduate school, with no income for materials, set up in a garage on the former family estate at the Redding border, surrounded by heirloom tools that his grandfather ...

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 ...

Kristopher Mercy of Sanford is a person with many interests. Among playing in the pit orchestra for the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance’s production of “Mama Mia!” and taking online classes, he also ...

Ed Willcock shares his passion for blacksmithing and how he keeps the artform alive. In this era of modern conveniences and disposable goods, it's nice to get back to our roots of making things by ...

“I always find time for firing up the forge,” he said. “The neatest part I think is when I would pull the forge outside and fire it up it; was like a magnet to the neighborhood kids. It’s like that ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI — Visitors to Frankenmuth can now try their hand at the art of blacksmithing and forge their own knife, magic wand, rune pendant and more at the Bavarian Blacksmith Experience. The new ...