Subject: Re: Women Blacksmiths

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 21:50:35 -0400

This women's blacksmith thing started a firestorm, didn't it?!  I'm reminded
of my great aunt, dead these many years, who shod horses, repaired the cotton
gin and still found time to do ART work in her spare time (I have a rose she
made in the 1930's).  She was not large or masculine and wore dresses and
high, button-top shoes until the day she died.  What she could do was work -
whether it be blacksmithing or farming.  She fell into the category of the
woman whose husband had died and left her with a farmstead and 200 acres (she
plowed with mules into the 1960's and lived well into her eighties).  'Nuff
said - I think there is plenty of precedent for women blacksmiths.

hollis

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:04:00 -0500

> said - I think there is plenty of precedent for women blacksmiths.

The latest issue of Catholic Digest had an article on a nun who is a 
blacksmith and a member of the New England Chapter of ABANA. Pretty 
interesting stuff. I think it was reprinted from a magazine called 
Women today or something like that. 
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds²