Subject: Re: Women Blacksmiths

From: Lowell Chaput <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:54:01 -0700

At 23:31 96-05-28 -0400, you wrote:
>At 9:53 PM 5/27/96, Rick Dixon wrote:
>
>>"...Do you have any information on women blacksmiths?
>>need some hard facts on blacksmithing and women."
>>Anybody got anything to quote from that we can pass on to help her out?
>
>Seems that I remember hearing a tale/myth/legend that the blacksmith
>wouldn't forge nails for Jesus' cross but his wife did forge the nails. Has
>anyone else heard that or is my imagination working overtime?
>
>Peter Ross and the folks at Williamsburg have done a lot of research about
>Colonial America. A call to them might provide some info.They probably are
>on the Internet, does anyone know?
>Clay
>
>
>
>Clay.
 The legend that you are referring to is in the British Blacksmith #74, in
an article by Jane Geddes page 4.

   Lowell.

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:08:09 -0500

> an article by Jane Geddes page 4.

This is the article that ran in the California Blacksmith too. You 
probably have that in a box somewhere Clay.

-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds²