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.
Marco Tomakin and El Bandalan moved to Albany from the Philippines in 2003 to be nurses at Albany Medical Center. Bandalan continues as a nurse while Tomakin, who studied both law and nursing in the Philippines, is an attorney specializing in immigration issues.