will.illinois.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf2009-04-30-a WILL Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Series Segment Agriculture/Agribusiness, Ethnicity/Culture, Historical Landmarks, Grand Detour, WILL Custom Prairie Fire Subject Headings Before the industrial revolution, the blacksmith was a vital part of most successful towns in America. Modern machines and mass production may have made the village smithy a thing of the past.  But the blacksmithing tradition lives on. Jared Collins visited a gathering of blacksmiths and woodwrights at the John Deere Historic Site in Grand Detour, IL and saw how the trades of shaping metal and wood using hand tools is still very much alive. Abstract Magazine PBCore Genre Picklist Is Part Of http://will.illinois.edu/prairiefire/episode/pf2009-04-30 Illinois, Indiana Spatial Intermediate (grades 7-9)|High School (grades 10-12)|Primary (grades 1-6)|College|Post Graduate|General Education|General TV-G Jared Collins and Steve Drake Producer Jared Collins and Steve Drake Editor WILL-TV, University of Illinois Copyright Holder Publisher © 2009 University of Illinois 2009-04-30T18:30:22-06:00 2009-04-30T18:30:22-06:00 video/x-pn-realvideo http://willmedia.will.uiuc.edu/ramgen/pf2009-04-30-a.rv Moving Image RealSystems Real Media 9 00:5:35 eng pf2009-04-30-a.rv WILL Public Media, University of Illinois 2009-04-30T18:30:22-06:00 2009-04-30T18:30:22-06:00 video/mp4 http://willmedia.atlas.uiuc.edu/mpeg4/pf2009-04-30-a.mp4 Moving Image MPEG video MPEG-4 00:5:35 eng pf2009-04-30-a.mp4 WILL Public Media, University of Illinois 2009-04-30T18:30:22-06:00 2009-04-30T18:30:22-06:00 video/x-flv http://willmedia.atlas.uiuc.edu/flash/pf2009-04-30-a.flv Moving Image Flash Video Flash Media 8 00:5:35 eng pf2009-04-30-a.flv WILL Public Media, University of Illinois