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.
Maria Lombardi of Colonie wanted to find a way to honor her mother’s memory.
“I remember my mom saying she wanted my daughter to wear her wedding dress for her First Communion,” recalled Lombardi.
So as the big day drew near, Lombardi thought of her mother, who had died a few years earlier, and brought the wedding dress to seamstress Antoinetta Scarcella, owner of Creations 4 Baby, a business she runs from her Guilderland home....
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