DICKINSON, N.D. - Horseshoes, and the people who shod them, have gone hand-in-hand with the rise and fall of nations since time immemorial. Historical evidence of horseshoes and horse husbandry exists ...
“A farrier is essentially a blacksmith who travels from barn to barn shoeing horses. We generally don’t do as much iron work as a blacksmith, but some farriers do. I do not.” “I leave the house around ...
“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 ...
As he has nearly every day for most of his 78 years, Carl Uebner still comes to work in the blacksmith shop his stepfather founded on Vallejo”s Broadway Street (then 205 Napa Road) in 1915, though he ...