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.
Dad saved the day when the pet parakeet died, recalls Lynne Petroski Fuchs of Glenville, whose essay is a finalist in The Gazette's "My Fabulous Father" contest....
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