Growing up I loved the poem by Longfellow, "The Village Blacksmith." I recall the lines, "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. The smith a mighty man was he, with large and ...

“Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands…” and so begins the famous poem “The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in 1842, Longfellow was already imparting a ...

In the poem The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow offers this description of the blacksmith. “His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan. His brow is wet with honest ...

The 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “The Village Blacksmith” had a lot to do with idolizing the humble blacksmith, especially for his attributes of skill, hard work and ...

But one of Beverly’s blacksmiths had many other talents that would take him from the heat of the forge, and lead him into the “flying sparks” of both local and state politics. That man was James A.