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.
The Museum at Bethel Woods opens Monday on the site of the old dairy farm in Bethel that was trampled under by some 400,000 people during Woodstock on the wet weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969.
