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.
At 30 years old, while in the northern Adirondacks, William James Stillman painted what would later afford him lasting and international fame. Two years later, in 1860, the Schenectady native gave up painting, eventually becoming a lesser-known diplomat, journalist and photographer....
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