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.
State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, looks at tick specimens through a microscope with P. Bryon Backenson, assistant director of Arthropod-Borne Disease Program, at HVCC in the Amstuz Building in Troy, during a Tick Tour to mark Lyme Disease Awareness Month Wednesday.
