Walter Benedict was born and raised in Akwesasne. He’s 81 now, but when he was 17, like many of his peers, he went into ironworking. Benedict spent years travelling the country, from Texas to North ...

Due to an unforeseeable personal emergency (I’m fine), I’m reprinting one of my earliest Walkabouts, from April 2009. If you weren’t a Brownstoner reader back then, then this is new material. If ...

Ironworking is often death-defying work. Many Mohawk residents of the North Country spent their careers perched on iron beams high in the sky,... Oct 28, 2019 — Ironworking is often death-defying work ...

A history of Ireland in 100 objects:The past is unpredictable. This iron spearhead is of a kind familiar enough from the Ireland of 500 AD. Andy Halpin of the National Museum of Ireland says that it ...

PEORIA — Bridget Booker wasn’t happy with her life, so she changed it. Seven and a half years ago the single mother of three children, ages 9, 2 and 1, was struggling to get by working full time as a ...