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NOVEMBER 2 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): Bryn and Spencer Pearson are two of the many blacksmiths that have worked in the Romeo Historical Society Craig Blacksmith Museum. Bryn is splitting the end of a future fork, while Spencer heats up his project on the original forge powered by the 1908 Buffalo Blower which forces air into the burning coal fire. Too much air and the temperature reach 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. and the metal just disappears. This is a working blacksmith shop. Clyde Craig came from his shop in Detroit in 1920 and took over the building that previously was used as a barn, tinsmith shop, upholstery shop and in 1918 an automobile repair shop. From 1920 to 1970 when Craig died, he was a farrier when he put shoes on a horse or ox, he was a veterinarian when he doctored a horse, he was a wheelwright when he fixed a spoke on a carriage, a 20th century fur trader when the local trappers brought their furs to his shop and finally a blacksmith when he made hinges or a handle for a door. The unheated shop gets pretty inactive in the winter. Your next chance to see the smith at work at the hot forge would be Dec. 3 during the RHS Christmas Walk. Richard Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff

NOVEMBER 2 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): Bryn and Spencer Pearson are two of the many blacksmiths that have worked in the Romeo Historical Society Craig Blacksmith Museum. Bryn is splitting the end of a future fork, while Spencer heats up his project on the original forge powered by the 1908 Buffalo Blower which forces air into the burning coal fire. Too much air and the temperature reach 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. and the metal just disappears. This is a working blacksmith shop. Clyde Craig came from his shop in Detroit in 1920 and took over the building that previously was used as a barn, tinsmith shop, upholstery shop and in 1918 an automobile repair shop. From 1920 to 1970 when Craig died, he was a farrier when he put shoes on a horse or ox, he was a veterinarian when he doctored a horse, he was a wheelwright when he fixed a spoke on a carriage, a 20th century fur trader when the local trappers brought their furs to his shop and finally a blacksmith when he made hinges or a handle for a door. The unheated shop gets pretty inactive in the winter. Your next chance to see the smith at work at the hot forge would be Dec. 3 during the RHS Christmas Walk. Richard Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff

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