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CLINTON — Anyone who has ever wondered how poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s village blacksmith managed it can take a turn with bellows, hammer and anvil next spring at the Red Mill Museum Village.

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There is a ritual and subtle rhythm to Michael Murphy’s every movement as a blacksmith — in his 1800s style workspace at the Tallahassee Museum, he dances between the anvil and the bellows with tongs ...

The M.M. Sherman Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shop was likely one of the most frequented destinations in town during its 1800s heyday, when just about everyone needed horses shoed and wagons mended. The ...

From “Farming in Northeast Lower Michigan, 1910-1960: The Way We Used to Do It,” by Herman Lunden Miller. Lunden’s book, which is available at Saturn Booksellers, 133 W. Main St., explores growing up ...