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.
From stem to stern, the New York State Canal System is now officially open for business, and for Richard Powell it couldn’t have come soon enough.
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