[TheForge] guild question

[Jerry Frost]

Publicity.

Find a place in a park and with permission set up for a few hours every 
weekend. It won't take long for word to get around and soon you'll have a 
regular audience.

Educate away.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Tull" <dantull at numail.org>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] guild question


> We have an ongoing problem.
>
> How do some of you others overcome the lack of knowledge of the public
> on what a blacksmith does?
> "You shoe horses!"   "There aren't anymore blacksmiths." "How do you make 
> a living?"
>
> I'm wondering if demonstrations in public places  ( downtown parks, 
> hotels, convention centere,) during
> conventions, etc. instead of the backwoods B.S. shop would help.
> Blacksmiths biggest problem is educating customers on what we CAN do.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
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