Pioneer Craft Festival

At a meeting of the Cleveland County 4-H Blacksmithing Club, held at the Pioneer Village in Rison, club member Millie Montgomery, 15, explains how club volunteer Jeff Frey and his son Brayden Frey, 13, are heating a piece of low-carbon steel to be hammered into a tent stake. (Division of Agriculture photo.)

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The metallic clang of hammers rang out when members of the Cleveland County 4-H Blacksmithing Club forged their own tent stakes. Read More