Come to Wild River State Park Saturday, June 28, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and see a live demonstration of one of the most important crafts of the 1850s, when Minnesota was considered the “wild frontier.”
Expert blacksmith Paul Webster will have a forge at the park’s visitor center, and will hammer out a series of tools, utility hooks, and other samples of the blacksmith trade.
Webster is a superb teacher as well as a smith, so expect to learn a great deal about how raw metal can be turned into the kinds of things a pioneer family would need in order to survive and prosper on the frontier.
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