Lucky are those who land in the horse carriage driven by Jan Michnej. The 60-year-old blacksmith-turned-carriage driver uses the skills he honed years ago to leave his customers with an unforgettable ...

LAWRENCE (AP) >> Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal's hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for more ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Every Thursday during Black History Month, the Today section will profile a historic figure who shaped the future of the Cape Fear region. In 1859, Alfred Hargrave, a 40-year-old slave, ...

Wearing a cowboy hat with a patch that reads, “Dead End: Story of My Life,” and a priestlike black robe to protect him from the flames, Pasadena’s last cowboy-blacksmith pounds out the curve on a ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- Randy Dack still remembers every detail from Sept. 11, 2001. Dack, the blacksmith at Grand Island's Stuhr Museum, vividly remembers hearing, "they just hit the World Trade Center ...

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal’s hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for ...