Walter Benedict was born and raised in Akwesasne. He’s 81 now, but when he was 17, like many of his peers, he went into ironworking. Benedict spent years travelling the country, from Texas to North ...

Ironworking is often death-defying work. Many Mohawk residents of the North Country spent their careers perched on iron beams high in the sky,... Oct 28, 2019 — Ironworking is often death-defying work ...

Due to an unforeseeable personal emergency (I’m fine), I’m reprinting one of my earliest Walkabouts, from April 2009. If you weren’t a Brownstoner reader back then, then this is new material. If ...

Learn about the discovery of a 2,400-year-old iron-smelting workshop in Senegal, shedding light on the Iron Age in West Africa. The Iron Age sparked a crucial evolution for civilizations in Europe, ...

There are certain traditions that define Milwaukee -- brewing beer, making sausage, handcrafting shoes, ironworking. During the late 19th-mid 20th centuries, Cyril Colnik put Milwaukee on the ...

PEORIA — Bridget Booker wasn’t happy with her life, so she changed it. Seven and a half years ago the single mother of three children, ages 9, 2 and 1, was struggling to get by working full time as a ...

PHOENIX — The changing face of trade workers - more and more women are picking up their tools and showing that jobs like construction are not just for men. All over the country, including right here ...

A historic Walsall ironworking firm is marking its 160th anniversary year with a major push to win more sales at home and abroad. Kirkpatrick has been making high-quality malleable iron castings at ...