[TheForge] NYT B Smithing reference

ries ries at riesniemi.com
Thu Apr 21 13:45:52 EDT 2011


Here is a bit of it, scanned from the original.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9657130/Obama-s-Mama-Peasant-Blacksmithing-in-Indonesia-Excerpts


Its nothing earthshattering, but, in my book, her heart was definitely in the right place.

ries


On Apr 21, 2011, at 10:39 AM, peter fels wrote:

I googled it and between all the crackpot right wing ranting found a mention that a truncated version is to be published in the new future.
It apparently ran to 1200 pages or so. The editors seemed to be much more interested in the anthropological / societal aspects than the metal working aspects per-se and i suspect the part we are most interested in may be edited out.
Rome will know more i'm sure.


On Apr 21, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Leslie Valentine wrote:

> Where can I find the piece she did?
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