“Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands…” and so begins the famous poem “The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in 1842, Longfellow was already imparting a ...

Growing up I loved the poem by Longfellow, "The Village Blacksmith." I recall the lines, "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. The smith a mighty man was he, with large and ...

TACOMA, Wash. -- It's a sound that's echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It's the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It's the sound memorialized in Longfellow's "The Village ...

The 1000 Ton Barge Canal project could not have been completed without the work of village of Spencerport blacksmiths. Earl White, former Ogden town historian, wrote: "The blacksmith shops in the ...

In the poem The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow offers this description of the blacksmith. “His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan. His brow is wet with honest ...

GLOUCESTER — George Cramer, the owner of Village Blacksmith in Gloucester, took an interest in working with metal at an early age. As a teen working with his father at his refuse company in New York, ...

The Village Blacksmith Shop is a replica of a building from them 1870s. It's located at 101 Front St. If you visit on the weekends, you can watch a blacksmith at work and learn about this historic ...

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In the remote village of V.Munlai, in south Manipur’s Churachandpur district, Khaigen, the blacksmith, has been consistently supplying agricultural tools for his entire village of 20-25 households. He ...