[TheForge] Brief History of Blacksmithing

[Woolley]

Greetings,

And now for something different!  Sorry, couldn't help myself, anyway...  As co -chairman of Cultural Arts Committee in our local PTA, I am organizing a field trip to a local artist-blacksmith's shop for 4th through 6th graders.  I want to give the teachers some information on blacksmithing to acclimate the students to what they will be seeing.  Does anyone have any ideas as to what existing printed information on the history of blacksmithing I can supply.  I'm trying to get away with not writing something myself.  The other aspects of organizing the trip are time consuming enough.  It should be brief because the teachers can't afford to spend too much time on something unrelated to the curriculum.  Anything??

Regards,
Bill Woolley