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.
When Kim and Ray Faiola are expecting guests at their Greenfield home, you won’t find them hastily straightening up a spare room, throwing a set of sheets on a sofa sleeper or inflating an air mattress. Instead, when guests arrive, Rudy greets them and shows the way to the always-ready guest quarters — a tiny cottage that mirrors the design of their main house, which Faiola built in 1984. Posted on February 17, 2008.
Kim and Ray Faiola of Greenfield show off their guest house cottage, which Ray built himself over a nine-month span in 2006.The Faiolas named the place “Lantern Waste,” a reference from C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”