The news has been spread in many ways throughout the years, but perhaps Peter Thomson, the Lafayette pioneer blacksmith, had one of the more unusual ways of telling his community what was happening.

The blacksmith pushes the smaller anvil down to form a gasket ... Not only was he a master blacksmith, but he took part in Civil War and mountain man re-enacting. He was also a wheelwright.

For two full centuries, through civil and ... the blacksmiths of Trenton continue to forge ahead in the digital age using little more than fire and water, hammers and anvils, along with age ...