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.
Rick Chandler slowed as he rode his bicycle across Route 5S on the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike trail.
But the Massachusetts visitor didn’t come to a full stop until he saw the solemn white 10-speed chained to a wooden barrier on the other side. He paused to read the bright yellow sign identifying the stripped-down bicycle as a memorial to Al Fairbanks, an avid cyclist who fell victim to a dangerous intersection between the two thoroughfares in November 2006....
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