A Blacksmith’s Weirdest Questions
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5 min readJan 26, 2020
For several seasons I had the absolute honor of being a blacksmith at a historic park.
Once I got on to the park property, it was as if I was living in the late 1800's. I had to go fetch my water in a bucket from a hundred yards away. My building had no heat, no electricity, and quite glaringly no fans in the summer. If a tool didn’t exist in that time period, I was not allowed to use it. No electric…
