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.
J.R. Hotaling, center, Scoutmaster of Rotterdam Boy Scout Troop 54, recites the Scout oath during a meeting at the Jefferson Elementary School in Rotterdam. Hotaling, who is blind, has been Scoutmaster for two years.
