Hammer & Tongs: Van Doren’s Ironworks

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Brad Edmondson, author of the Tompkins County Historical Commission’s most recent book Hammer & Tongs: The Ironworks of Durand Van Doren, will do a special reading of selections from the book, accompanied by Durand Van Doren himself. Durand Van Doren has spent nearly fifty years turning plain iron into something with a sense of humor. He came to blacksmithing in 1972 through a ten-week course, then sharpened his craf