Blacksmith Steve Kellogg, who teaches at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, recently taught a bunch of SUNY Oneonta grad students how to cast pewter spoons.
Of course in a class like this the pewter spoons are just the byproduct of the larger mission. The real lessons were about working with artisans, the nature of craft, dealing with failure and trying to succeed when some variables are beyond your control.
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