Blacksmith Story

Item #332

True Builders of America

(September, 1987) Richard McIntosh posed as the Blacksmith for this statue, another member of the True Builders of America series. The Blacksmith is wearing a leather apron and using the anvil to make horseshoes. When I was a little boy, most people owned automobiles, but horses were still commonplace. My father’s store had a hitching post behind it, for the customers who came by horse-drawn wagon. I remember riding my pony down a dirt road to the blacksmith’s shop to get him shoed. Today’s schoolchildren take field trips to visit a restored blacksmith’s shop. Nowadays I take trips down the road to Richard McIntosh’s to get my car repaired.

Dr. Thomas F. Clark