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.
Steve Trueman shows an exhibit of old diving equipment that he has been working on in the Frances Turecamo, a tugboat on which he lives Wednesday afternoon. The boat is currently docked in the Halfmoon Crescent Park, where Trueman would like to make his tugboat a museum.