Missouri Blacksmiths Are Keeping a Touch, Old Trade Alive, from Anne Kniggendorf for KCUR 89.3
KCUR’s Anne Kniggendorf shared stories about blacksmiths Mike McLaughlin and Bernard Tappel, who were featured artists in an exhibition at the Mid-America Arts Alliance and a special “hammer in” demonstration during First Fridays at the Crossroads in KC, Mo.
Blacksmith Mike McLaughlin of Lawson, Missouri, bangs out a rain gauge holder at a First Friday event in the Crossroads.
courtesy of Mid-America Arts Alliance