Thomson, an avid Union supporter during the Civil War, would use his anvil. Whenever he heard of a Union victory, he would load the hole in the bottom of his anvil with powder, cover it with a ...

The others are the anvil, the forge, the vice and tongs. "It's hard work, but you get the satisfaction in producing things that cannot be bought anywhere else." Traditional blacksmiths work with ...

A large number of people turned out for the launch of Tales of the Anvil The forges and blacksmiths of Wexford' by Eamon Doyle and among them were some men who have worked at the anvil in years ...

The star of the show, the anvil, was used by blacksmiths in the famed Mormon Battalion as far back as 1847. It was brought to the town by pioneer Joseph S. Hancock sometime in the 1880s.

showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing people what blacksmiths do brings him joy. “This is an age-old craft that most people ...