Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
As T.J. Smith surveys her audience, she sees teenagers holding their toddlers’ hands, gang members flipping hand signals at each other and drug dealers leaning against the wall, hands shoved deep into their pockets....
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