[TheForge] Suggestion for ABANA Poster

[Paul Novorolsky]

awesome story. I love hearing bits about the history of the 
organization. Thanks for posting

**Paul

On 12/24/2011 8:39 AM, John D. W. wrote:
>   any of these posts before but maybe now is the time.
> Alex Bealer invited my dad to a blacksmith get-together in Lumpkin Ga. when
> I was 9.  It was 1972.  He had  located a few forges and anvils around town
> and wanted to do what I have now come to call a "Hammer-In".  Alex also
> invited Ivan Bailey, better known as Georgia Sweets, who dad says could
> forge weld with only a handful of coal.  Another invitee was John Algood,
> the master blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg.  Also there was Dimitri
> Gerakaris, Fritz Ulrich a black