"It’s just making sure that we have a modern facility for our needs in our community," Council of Trustees Chair Ranjit Samra said. The city previously asked a judge to throw out the case, arguing the ...

I recently had the opportunity to take part in the sold-out Living Craft Tinsmithing Workshop at the Historic Arkansas Museum. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven of us learned how to create our very own ...

I’m originally from Edenderry, Co Offaly. I was born on the side of the road. Until I was 10 or 12 years old, we lived in tents. My father by then, he had saved a few bob and he bought a barrel top ...

The Hay Creek Valley Historical Association will once again present children’s hand-on activities at its monthly Furnace Operation Days event Saturday. The event will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at ...

Kaylee Jenkins, 10, was the first Living History camper to finish her luminary. Kaylee, who has attended the camp for three years, worked quickly with a hammer and nail to pound a design into a piece ...

Cutting shears, rawhide hammers, soldering irons -- a tinsmith needed big hands, a powerful grip and a fine eye. In the cities, the smiths worked in cramped spaces, pounding together everything from ...

They say it in an incredulous tone, looking at the shining silver tankards, cups, coffeepots and other wares arranged around Chris Hagemann’s tinsmithing shop. Hagemann is used to this question. He ...

“It was the poor man’s silver,” said Ed Stailey, who comes from a family legacy of tinsmithing. Stailey’s great uncles owned Stailey Brothers, a shop in Liverpool. “In the summertime they would put on ...