The American College of the Building Arts has hammered out a $2 million deal to grow its blacksmithing program. The school has purchased an existing 6,000-square-foot building on about a third of an ...

SURRY COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — If you want to try your hand at blacksmithing, now is your chance. Surry County Community College is hosting a beginner class aimed at teaching you the basics and giving ...

The American College of the Building Arts has relocated its blacksmith program and workshop to upper King Street in a permanent off-site extension of its peninsula campus. Now a few weeks into the new ...

Matt Garton (above, left) chair of blacksmithing at the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA), and his student Reginald “Reggie” Middleton of Charleston, an ACBA senior, hammer a hot metal rod ...

Hammers are hitting against metal and visually showing the door to the classroom. At Pitt Community College, students and locals alike are going beyond the textbook to learn centuries-old trades.

Blacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge supplied the tools that made ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...