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.
Schenectady’s native son Joseph Yates, who served a single two-year term as governor from 1823 to 1824, will finally get his portrait in the Hall of Governors at the State Capitol.
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