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Welcome to Connecticut
Blacksmith's Guild
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Upcoming Events
Around the area
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updated 7/14/2008
Reminder - Safety Glasses Required at
all events
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Date to be announced
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August 2008
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Sat. Aug.
16 - Sun. Aug 17
Age of
Iron
Hancock
Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA
Sponsored
by Berkshire Blacksmith Association and Hancock Shaker Village
20 Forges
and 30 Blacksmiths working all the time and a Tailgate sales area
For
Information or to set-up contact Nick Urquhart,
508-867-9537
Hancock
Shaker Village information: 413-443-0188
www.hancockshakervillage.org
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Thur. Aug.
21 - Sun. Aug. 24
Brooklyn Fair - Demonstrators Needed
Intersection of Hartford Rd (Rt. 6) and Canterbury Rd (Rt. 169)
Brooklyn
Fairgrounds, Brooklyn, Ct
New
Forging demonstration location, will be located indoors,
We need demonstrators and talkers, if you
can do both so much the better.
Contact Steve Melady: 860-288-2185
smelady254@charter.net
to reserve your time.
This call is about filling the purpose of the Guild, to educate the
public about blacksmithing.
Fair information can be found at:
www.brooklynfair.org
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September 2008
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Thurs.
Sept 4 - Sun. Sept 7
Atlantic Coast Regional Blacksmith Conference
Ashokan
Field Campus
Olivebridge, NY
Sponsored
by Multiple area Blacksmith Groups including: Northeast Blacksmith
Guild, Ct Blacksmith Guild and New England Blacksmiths
For more
info: www.acblacksmiths.org
To
volunteer contact: Dave Hageman 860-267-0659
(Note,
this is the Fall NEB Meet)
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October 2008
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Oct.
Date to be Announced
10:00 am -
4:00 pm
The
Lemelson Center 9th annual Blacksmith Event
Hampshire
College, Amherst, MA
Tailgate
sales area
Check for
updates at:
http://lemelson.hampshire.edu and check the events area
Fore more
info contact: Don Dupuis, 413-559-5346
ddupuis@hampshire.edu
Coffee,
Donuts and lunch will be available
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Sat Oct. 4
1:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Annual
weekend of Fire and Family and the Bread Bakers Guild Bake-off
CBG
Members will be demonstrating the smithing of Culinary Tools. Come
watch, demo and/or sell Culinary Tools. Demonstrators will be well
fed.
Great
Culinary Museum on site with lots of Iron Implements, museum opens 10:00
am.
Contact
Richard Gutman, 401-598-1860
rgutman@jwu.edu or Bill Sheer, 860-536-0679
mysticbs@aol.com for more
info or to help demonstrate.
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November 2008
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December 2008
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January 2009
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February 2009
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March 2009
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April 2009
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May 2009
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Reminder
- Safety Glasses Required at all events
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Club News:
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Blacksmith Classes:
--Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield,
CT, 203-775-4526,
www.Brookfieldcraftcenter.org
--Bill
Senseney, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Ma, 413-354-9656
--Bill
Scheer, Mystic Seaport Museum (classes & private lessons) Mystic CT, 860-572-5322
Bill also teaches at: Brookfield Craft Center, Guilford Art Center &
at the Steel Yard)
--Derek Glaser's New England School
of Metal Work, Auburn, ME, 888-753-7502
www.newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com
--Gilford Arts Center, Guilford, CT, 203-453-5947,
www.guilfordartcenter.org
--Hancock
Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Ma, 413-443-0188
www.hancockshakervillage.org
--John
D'Abate and Jeff Ferschke at Hannaway Blacksmith Shop, Lincoln, RI.
Contact John at 401-724-1522, http://www.hearthsidehouse.org/hannaway/
--South
County Museum, , RI 401-783-5400
www.southcountymuseum.org
--The
Steel Yard, Providence, RI, 401-273-7101,
www.thesteelyard.org
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***ANYONE
WANTING TO SPONSOR A MEET OR DEMONSTRATE AT A MEET***
please contact me.
YOU make it
happen.
Bill Scheer, 4 Haley Street, Mystic, CT 06355, 860-536-0679 or I can be
emailed
here.
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Clubs & Links |
--Artist-Blacksmith's
Association of North America (ABANA)
www.abana.org,
abana@abana.org
--New England Blacksmiths,
www.newenglandblacksmiths.org
--Northeast
Blacksmiths Association,
nba.abana-chapter.com
--Berkshire
Blacksmiths,
For the newsletter mail $10 to Robert Engle, 382 West Ghent Rd, Hudson,
NY 12534 or call 518-828-0376
For more information contact Director: Nick Urquhart, 508-867-9537
--Capitol
District Blacksmiths,
www.cdblacksmiths.org
Albany, NY area
--Southern
Bunch
Usually meets on the 4th Saturday of the month at the blacksmith shop at
South County Museum,
www.southcountymuseum.org.
For more information contact Jim Chrothers 401-783-5400, Owen
Bostrom 401-377-2611 or Fred Mikkelsen
401-647-3086
--Hannaway
Blacksmith Shop, Great Rd, Lincoln, RI
http://www.hearthsidehouse.org/hannaway/
Shop open every Saturday 8am-12pm
For more info contact: John Scanlon, 401-724-1522
--Mike
Miciukiewicz's websites -
www.ctblacksmith.com and
www.Mike-stuff.com
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