I got my first batch from a blacksmith in Delaware where I bought ... possibly one reason it’s called green coal. Forced air fire There are a couple of byproducts of the coal burning process ...

Blacksmiths were the high technologists of ... There was the evocative coal fire smell of burning coke from the hearth, an anvil, and the sound of hammering. This is intensely familiar to me ...

"Then, one by one, the other blacksmiths either left, moved to another town," he said, "until about five years ago, when I was the only one left." Since then, it's been all Olson at the coal-fired ...