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.
At left, Adrianna Lombardi, 12, holds her grandmother’s wedding dress, which had been used also as Adrianna’s First Communion dress in 2004, seen right. (Image at left by Bruce Squiers/Gazette Photographer; image at right provided)
