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.
--Phil Steffan, city artisan, is framed Friday at the Saratoga Springs Public Works garage with two, now painted, turn of the 20th-century cast iron lions which have resided throughout the city, and will eventually return to their origins at City Hall
