Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site will present the traditional craft of blacksmithing demonstrated on period equipment by traveling blacksmith Jymm Hoffman of Ohio.
A full-time blacksmith, Jymm specializes in museum quality reproductions and custom orders. Ha has been featured multiple times in Early American Life’s “200 Best Craftsmen” magazine.
He has taught at Pennsylvania’s Touchstone Center for the Crafts and New England School of Metalwork and demonstrates blacksmithing at historical re-enactments throughout the Northeast and Midwest.
Hoffman will be on hand Friday and Saturday July 25 – 26, 202% from 10 am until 4 pm at Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site’s Memorial Tree Grove.
Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site in Jefferson County, NY, is where two battles were fought during the War of 1812. Some 3,000 men worked at the shipyard building warships, and the village was fortified and garrisoned with thousands of troops.
The site includes exhibits, a restored 1850s Navy Yard and Commandant’s House, outdoor signs, and guided and self-guided tours. During the summer months, interpretive guides, in regimental style, re-enact a soldier’s camp life in 1813.
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