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Bloomsburg Fair, Pennsylvania's Neighborhood: Columbia County

(2022) Bloomsburg Fair, Pennsylvania's Neighborhood: Columbia County

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00:10 - Welcome

00:11 - to the roseburg fair

00:12 - here we are in one hundred and

00:14 - sixty seventh year the boonsboro

00:15 - fair.

00:16 - And agricultural fair

00:17 - this this fair started.

00:18 - Hundred and sixty seven years

00:20 - ago with some farmers getting

00:21 - together and

00:22 - having horse races and

00:23 - showing off farm machinery

00:24 - and having farm

00:25 - machinery competitions

00:26 - and I

00:27 - in one hundred and sixty seven

00:28 - years rs it's it's bloomed into

00:30 - a two hundred acre.

00:31 - A.

00:32 - Fair one of the largest

00:33 - fairs in Pennsylvania.

00:36 - We still tried to follow

00:37 - our agricultural roots

00:39 - we would love to stay

00:39 - agriculture the whole time.

00:42 - But as

00:42 - as things progress we

00:43 - have the games and.

00:45 - We have a

00:46 - thousand vendors here on

00:47 - this fairgrounds nowadays

00:49 - and.

00:50 - They are.

00:52 - Ranges and

00:53 - food mostly

00:54 - this is

00:54 - kind of known as

00:55 - an eating fair now

00:57 - we have a lot of food but

00:58 - that's part of agriculture

00:59 - without agriculture

01:00 - you don't have food.

01:01 - We have a lot of live animals.

01:03 - To see a lot of

01:04 - people come from.

01:06 - Larger towns and larger cities

01:08 - they don't have they don't get

01:09 - to see the animals like you

01:10 - would hear at the

01:10 - bloomsburg fair

01:11 - so we like to demonstrate them.

01:13 - And also.

01:15 - Way of agricultural machinery

01:16 - old antique machinery and

01:18 - modern machinery around on the

01:19 - grounds to be able to see.

01:21 - The aromas that you smell

01:23 - as you walk around

01:24 - the fairgrounds

01:24 - just aromas everywhere you

01:25 - just

01:26 - makes it

01:26 - makes your mouth water all day

01:27 - long matter how full you get.

01:29 - But along with that our.

01:31 - Buildings we have

01:32 - all all kinds of exhibits

01:33 - from local and far

01:34 - away people that.

01:36 - Make thing show things.

01:38 - The

01:38 - buildings are

01:39 - beautiful we rarely

01:40 - recommend people come and see

01:41 - the buildings.

01:42 - The local talent is amazing

01:43 - around here and

01:44 - this is where they

01:44 - get the display it.

01:46 - Chocolate pie

01:47 - apple.

01:48 - Apple pie making

01:49 - contest chocolate cakey

01:51 - making contests.

01:52 - If you can come

01:53 - here it's pa preferred

01:55 - and then you move on to the farm

01:56 - show in Harrisburg in January

01:58 - and try and when your

01:59 - when your best pie there.

02:02 - Just come to the fair there's so

02:03 - many things there's something

02:04 - here for everybody it's a

02:05 - it's a beautiful place and a

02:06 - wonderful place to have.

02:08 - A bloomsburg fair.

02:42 - Hi I'm Suzanne

02:43 - and an employee here at the

02:45 - horticultural

02:45 - building and today we

02:47 - are right now in this

02:48 - specimen flower section.

02:50 - These are flour hours that the

02:51 - public has entered they

02:53 - brought them in on Friday

02:54 - they got judged on Saturday.

02:56 - While the fair was open

02:58 - and you can see some of the

02:59 - different kinds that came in.

03:01 - When the judges are looking at

03:02 - them they're looking for quality

03:04 - of the flour they want

03:05 - to look at the petals.

03:07 - They want to look

03:07 - at the condition

03:08 - of the flowers if there's

03:09 - any stems if there's any

03:10 - the kind of damage to them.

03:12 - They also do.

03:14 - Follow the rulebook surface as

03:15 - they went three stems they went

03:17 - three stamps you

03:18 - don't put four or five in.

03:20 - So some of the different kinds

03:21 - that came in this year we have a

03:23 - blue adulate him

03:24 - and why add uranium.

03:26 - We have some different solo se

03:30 - is this is a crested

03:30 - Ari Cox com.

03:30 - This is a.

03:32 - Another type of alessia.

03:34 - This is a spider

03:35 - player or cleon me.

03:37 - These are some.

03:39 - Cosmos the best base category

03:41 - and the dahlias are always a big

03:42 - drawback here and you can see

03:44 - the different types

03:45 - this is a decorative one.

03:47 - Some of the bigger ones

03:48 - that you may see are a.

03:50 - Decorative and they may be a

03:51 - dinner plate size

03:51 - those are always

03:52 - a big eye catcher around here.

03:54 - And then there's

03:55 - also cactus tile.

03:57 - Dahlias.

03:58 - And then holloway down in the

04:00 - end you can see some gladiolus

04:02 - it's just a

04:03 - nice show a nice variety of

04:04 - colors and styles and types of

04:06 - flowers here

04:07 - and it's always a great

04:08 - show to come see.

04:10 - And.

05:21 - Heights is at and right now we

05:23 - are in the foliage plant section

05:25 - and we are showing the coleus

05:27 - and I just wanted to highlight

05:28 - the variety and how far these

05:30 - coleus have

05:30 - comments some of the.

05:32 - Detailing to the leaf color

05:34 - the leaf shape the texture.

05:36 - May even be the

05:37 - size to some of them.

05:39 - Some of these that are really

05:40 - nice big and fall are this way

05:42 - because the flower stems that

05:43 - came up they have pinched out

05:45 - and they have shaped the plants

05:46 - to make them such a nice round

05:48 - shape like this.

05:49 - But if you ever get a chance

05:50 - to go look at the the nurseries

05:52 - are catalogs it's

05:53 - just amazing to see.

05:55 - The colors from a bright green

05:57 - deprez

05:58 - by colors that may

05:59 - have all three colors then

06:01 - and here's one at the flower

06:02 - stems or onto these are the ones

06:03 - that could be pinched off.

06:05 - And the colors then go down

06:06 - by colors and some really dark

06:08 - speck to the bright colors again

06:10 - great selection of

06:10 - coleus cetera out there.

06:13 - Three.

07:13 - And am Evan snyder here the

07:25 - bloomsburg fair welcome to the

07:39 - sheep show.

07:40 - On the on the

07:41 - judge today for the

07:43 - the open breeding sheep show

07:45 - we're judging the

07:45 - the pair class here.

07:47 - For the eo be Wolverine so.

07:49 - Welcome to the fair have a good

07:51 - time congratulations to all the

07:52 - exhibitors here.

07:54 - Or on TV.

07:56 - You gotta smile.

07:57 - And so we're judging

08:00 - the spring ulam class.

08:04 - Of our all other breeds wool

08:06 - we start here with a

08:07 - pair of Jacob sheep.

08:09 - The the Jacob sheep are known.

08:11 - For their four horns.

08:12 - That they.

08:14 - Will start or fourth horns

08:15 - here and they'll they'll become

08:16 - bigger as they get older.

08:18 - The

08:19 - this is a really nice female

08:20 - with a nice fleece about her

08:21 - very uniform and are fleece.

08:23 - Good hands and a top or

08:25 - were looking for

08:26 - not only the the

08:27 - structure and the mass

08:28 - and the width and the meat

08:29 - but we're looking for the fleet

08:30 - structure.

08:31 - You want to look

08:32 - in three places here.

08:34 - Throughout the

08:35 - the

08:35 - body

08:36 - to determine the.

08:37 - Uniformity of the fleece

08:38 - mountains very nice they're.

08:40 - Doing another.

08:41 - Jacob female here.

08:43 - And

08:50 - how you

08:51 - are

08:52 - and what do we call on this one.

08:54 - Okay.

08:55 - We've got a dorset

08:56 - advantage here.

08:57 - This is a cross bred lamb.

09:00 - Not known for their

09:01 - the best of fleeces

09:02 - but they left

09:03 - they have left

09:04 - the wall here for

09:04 - US to determine

09:05 - there are more known for

09:06 - their muscle and their meat.

09:08 - As we work into a

09:12 - pair of

09:12 - border lies to your use here.

09:15 - This one's actually

09:16 - crossbred okay okay.

09:19 - They're known to have some

09:20 - mass and muscle in their top.

09:22 - Their fleece structure is

09:23 - usually really really good.

09:24 - As this characteristic

09:26 - of this cramp in this curl.

09:27 - You look in again for the

09:29 - uniformity from front to rear.

09:31 - And these are a

09:37 - Scottish blackface

09:45 - breed.

09:47 - These are.

09:48 - Really really massive

09:49 - in their rib and body.

09:51 - Their their fleeces are supposed

09:53 - to be straighter in terms of

09:54 - that lock structure compared

09:56 - to those curls that we've seen.

09:59 - Again we're looking for

10:00 - uniformity here very very.

10:01 - Uniform about her.

10:04 - And we move into a

10:08 - pair of Lincoln's here.

10:15 - That

10:16 - this breed is known

10:17 - for having great

10:18 - great top lines about

10:19 - I'm very straight.

10:21 - A lot of width and

10:22 - dimension in terms of muscle.

10:24 - Again we're we're going to go

10:25 - into fleece here and these are

10:26 - supposed to be that.

10:27 - That Santa claus beard curl.

10:30 - And again we're looking for

10:31 - that that uniformity here this

10:32 - one's very very nice.

10:35 - And on t v smile.

10:41 - Smile.

10:43 - Then we'll move on into.

10:48 - Another breed

10:49 - this is the Columbia's here that

10:50 - fall into this same category

10:52 - these are going to

10:53 - be the bigger stature.

10:54 - Type of sheep compared to

10:55 - some of the other ones that were

10:56 - sorting through this is a.

10:59 - Very very big

10:59 - splashy type of female

11:01 - again we're looking for

11:02 - some link the side

11:03 - and muscle and shape.

11:05 - Then we get into

11:06 - their fleece and.

11:08 - Again we're looking for

11:09 - uniformity here they're

11:10 - not going to have quite the

11:11 - characteristic as some of these

11:12 - that we've had

11:13 - they're known as more of

11:14 - a

11:14 - medium define wall.

11:17 - Really a nice fleece

11:17 - about her as well.

11:19 - And now that we've handled each

11:25 - one individually we're going to.

11:32 - Walk them around and watch

11:33 - watch how they walk and move in

11:35 - terms of their

11:35 - structure and then we'll.

11:37 - We'll play some by how they rank

11:39 - in this class last.

11:41 - Arabella.

11:43 - Let's go full circle

11:44 - back to here okay.

11:46 - Though we're watching them

11:49 - watching a movie.

11:50 - Watching how they

11:51 - set their feet and legs.

11:53 - How much squareness they

11:55 - have right in behind them.

11:58 - Watching how they track and how

11:59 - much balance they have from the

12:00 - side and

12:01 - then we'll make some

12:02 - final decisions on.

12:04 - How they're going

12:13 - to place within

12:22 - the clapham and and now we've

12:39 - seen them all move.

12:40 - A little bit we can make

12:41 - some decisions on.

12:43 - On

12:43 - how we're going to rank them.

12:44 - One through.

12:46 - Whatever the total is

12:47 - here there's two four six.

12:49 - Eight

12:50 - ten eleven we have

12:51 - eleven placings here

12:52 - and I'll work through

12:53 - that about how I

12:54 - make some priorities

12:56 - of how they move

12:57 - how they handle

12:57 - them and how their

12:59 - fleet structure is in

13:00 - terms of uniformity.

13:02 - And and let's bring this one.

13:35 - That one's going to be

13:39 - the least ranking just her

13:44 - her positives are the

13:45 - are the least of this group

13:47 - she doesn't have quite the fleet

13:48 - structure that some of these

13:49 - have so.

13:50 - Far down in the eleventh hole.

13:53 - Analysts continue ranking them.

14:00 - From the bottom to the

14:02 - first part of the class here.

14:04 - Three and and

14:24 - getting down to the.

14:59 - My favorites in terms of what

15:00 - they bring to the

15:01 - table as far as

15:02 - positives.

15:03 - I may walk them again here

15:05 - to kind of break break

15:06 - the tie or whatever but

15:07 - it's a nice group

15:08 - here as a whole

15:08 - even though there's a lot of

15:09 - differences and.

15:11 - They're they're very nice

15:12 - representation of the breeds.

15:14 - And and as bring

15:39 - this one in five.

16:10 - Keep her on the side.

16:14 - And three

16:50 - two.

16:52 - Glasses it again very hard to

16:54 - to determine.

16:55 - An exact placing here because

16:56 - there's so many breeds sorted

16:58 - and

16:58 - they offer a lot of different

16:59 - things your forest I do think

17:01 - we can we continue to pull them

17:03 - apart and just study structure

17:04 - and balance them

17:05 - and what they bring in terms of

17:06 - fleas I think you'd get a nice

17:08 - line up your forests

17:09 - Lincoln you just a really a

17:10 - neat picture from the side side.

17:12 - That one is square and really

17:14 - good in terms of her hip and top

17:16 - shape.

17:16 - Really good comfortable fleece

17:18 - I think that one's very uniform

17:19 - she's very fresh and young

17:20 - and looks like she's going to

17:21 - continue to go for

17:23 - a lover shoulder to chest I

17:24 - think that one

17:25 - just ties a lot of

17:25 - nice things together here forest

17:27 - Colombia you come second and

17:28 - closely follows where this one

17:29 - runs the right way

17:31 - I love her happen

17:32 - great top shape about that

17:33 - when you run your hands down her

17:34 - spine and there's

17:35 - not a hole in her

17:36 - good fleece and is

17:37 - a neat package

17:38 - from the side again

17:40 - very good new breed character

17:41 - I think there's a nice

17:41 - female for that second hole

17:43 - some give or take in the next

17:44 - three and you can flop them

17:45 - however you want

17:46 - to do I think this to

17:47 - another big square high

17:48 - volume type of female

17:50 - in this Lincoln knew

17:50 - that comes third

17:51 - maybe her face.

17:53 - You get into it

17:53 - maybe not quite as

17:54 - as unique and as much character

17:57 - as we have in

17:57 - those first two but

17:58 - good voted very very square and

18:00 - I think again one that's very

18:01 - growth the other gets a

18:02 - nice female know Jacob

18:03 - comes for

18:04 - that one I really really enjoy

18:06 - the handle of that cheap

18:07 - achievements really really

18:08 - wide and massive for what those

18:09 - sheep bring to the table.

18:11 - That one can be

18:11 - a little bit bigger

18:12 - bone if you want to get real.

18:14 - Real critical weather but

18:15 - I think one that's

18:16 - very unique and

18:17 - neat made in terms of top shape

18:18 - Columbia you can buy another

18:20 - real long sighted

18:21 - good look into

18:22 - this I love that one's.

18:23 - Head in terms of

18:24 - a great character

18:25 - maybe a little easier

18:26 - right behind her shoulder

18:27 - maybe that

18:28 - will come about as she

18:29 - continues to grow and.

18:30 - I think a big big female

18:31 - next year as a yearling

18:32 - this is a great set all the way

18:33 - down let's give a big round of

18:34 - applause with a great

18:35 - group regulations.

18:37 - And.

19:07 - Morning.

19:08 - You're at the Rupert

19:10 - one room school

19:11 - and you are welcome here they

19:12 - were at the bloomsburg fair.

19:14 - In the historical section.

19:16 - This building was built in

19:18 - eighteen sixty

19:18 - nine and used as a

19:19 - school till nineteen sixty four.

19:22 - It's been moved twice has

19:23 - been flooded three times

19:25 - and this school building

19:26 - is an amazing place

19:27 - I understand you're going to be

19:30 - invited inside my

19:30 - school building

19:31 - and you will love what you see.

19:34 - This building is originally.

19:37 - I would have held

19:38 - the eight grades

19:38 - at the very end sixth grades

19:40 - were taught in the same building

19:42 - and.

19:42 - Watch

19:43 - the floor watch all the features

19:46 - you will be impressed with the

19:47 - originality of this particular

19:49 - building

19:50 - we've incorporated a lot of

19:52 - historical books

19:53 - are historical desks

19:55 - the blackboard is original

19:56 - the floor is original oh

19:58 - and I will tell you

19:59 - about all those things

20:01 - welcome

20:01 - to the

20:02 - Rupert one room school.

20:05 - It's time for the data star.

20:11 - I've called the children

20:12 - in for morning recess.

20:14 - They will file in.

20:16 - The smallest

20:17 - children sit up front.

20:20 - If you're big enough to

20:21 - come to school you're

20:22 - if you are if you are

20:24 - big enough to sit in the

20:26 - front seats the smallest seats

20:28 - with your feet on the floor

20:29 - your back against the back your

20:30 - bottom on the sea

20:32 - you can to school

20:33 - and it wasn't a certain

20:35 - age it was a certain

20:36 - size

20:37 - and as you got

20:38 - older and smarter.

20:40 - And bigger

20:41 - you went to bigger

20:42 - and bigger bigger seats

20:44 - you'll notice the front

20:45 - seats don't have that hole.

20:47 - Which was the inkwell.

20:50 - Children come into the

20:52 - school here at the fair

20:54 - and asked me what that

20:55 - hole is for and I tell them

20:57 - it's where they ran the

20:58 - wires for their computers

20:59 - and then I

21:00 - tell them the real

21:01 - reason for them

21:02 - prequels

21:04 - this is the original

21:05 - teacher's desk and chair.

21:08 - And the recitation benches

21:09 - this is where she would have

21:10 - actually taught

21:11 - people ask how

21:13 - did she teach eight

21:15 - grades at once because she did.

21:16 - What she would

21:17 - do is crawl call to.

21:19 - Age groups up maybe she would

21:20 - have a fourth

21:21 - grade history group

21:22 - going here

21:23 - at a second grade arithmetic

21:25 - here.

21:26 - They didn't have math

21:27 - they had a risk fnatic

21:28 - and she would teach

21:30 - by putting the

21:31 - problems on the board

21:32 - these children

21:33 - will be using slates

21:34 - these children would

21:35 - be using one text

21:37 - reading and passing it to the

21:38 - next child and passing it to the

21:39 - next child

21:41 - and she asked and

21:42 - answered all their questions.

21:44 - Meanwhile everybody

21:45 - else is doing seatwork.

21:47 - Nobody would interrupt what

21:48 - the teacher was doing up here

21:50 - because

21:51 - they didn't want to be.

21:53 - Get in trouble

21:54 - so they would turn

21:55 - and ask the person

21:56 - right behind them.

21:58 - To help them and that

21:59 - way if you learn it yourself

22:01 - and you teach it

22:02 - to somebody else

22:03 - you've learned

22:03 - to better yourself.

22:04 - And that information

22:06 - is out here.

22:07 - The

22:08 - the small children didn't need

22:09 - the fourth grade listen or the

22:10 - second grade lesson

22:12 - but it's being

22:13 - introduced to them

22:14 - and the kids that

22:14 - have already had it

22:16 - is being reviewed.

22:17 - That plates that you see here.

22:20 - Blackboards were

22:21 - originally blackboards.

22:22 - That's why we left that piece

22:24 - there it was aboard

22:26 - painted black

22:27 - but the rest of these

22:28 - we're original slates

22:30 - and those were

22:31 - used we practice star

22:33 - Palmer method of handwriting.

22:35 - The.

22:37 - Lithographs you see always

22:39 - able on one side

22:40 - George on the other.

22:42 - We always pledge allegiance

22:43 - the American flag in the morning

22:45 - prayer

22:46 - and

22:47 - Bible reading.

22:49 - You know a.

22:50 - One room schoolhouse

22:52 - because they

22:53 - are always located on the ground

22:54 - north to south with three

22:55 - windows on both sides.

22:57 - The reason for the three

22:58 - windows and why they're directly

23:00 - across from each other

23:02 - is because that's the

23:03 - blessing of the father son

23:05 - and holy ghost on our building.

23:07 - In addition to that

23:08 - the reason why

23:10 - directly across from each other

23:10 - is the superstition was

23:12 - if there was a place

23:13 - for the devil to come in

23:14 - there had to be a place

23:16 - for the devil to go out.

23:17 - Every day started and ended.

23:20 - With all the children

23:21 - working together

23:23 - in this

23:23 - a

23:24 - cooperative community

23:26 - so that everybody was learning

23:28 - and

23:29 - there was no

23:29 - problem with discipline

23:31 - because if you got in

23:32 - trouble here at school.

23:34 - You got it much worse at home.

23:36 - So.

23:37 - You think that this is a we

23:38 - should go back to the old days

23:40 - well reading writing

23:41 - arithmetic are important

23:43 - and they're still important

23:45 - let's keep that.

23:47 - Energy that comes

23:48 - from techno elegy

23:49 - and bring it back to

23:50 - reading writing and arithmetic

23:52 - with respect

23:53 - and responsibility

23:54 - added to those three rs.

23:56 - Thank you for coming

23:57 - to my Rupert school.

23:59 - Have a great day.

24:28 - Morning where the

24:29 - blocks from his job

24:31 - at the bloomsburg fair.

24:33 - Behind the barton house.

24:34 - My name's Brad grey

24:36 - and this is Harold English.

24:38 - We're here.

24:40 - About.

24:41 - Eighteen seventy years so

24:43 - eighteen fifty eighteen seventy.

24:45 - Up until the present day.

24:47 - Doing blacksmithing.

24:49 - Which is the working of iron.

24:51 - And steel

24:53 - and other metals.

24:54 - Usually

24:55 - heating them up.

24:57 - Cutting them.

24:58 - Hitting them

24:59 - molding them.

25:01 - And today we're making.

25:03 - A.

25:04 - S hook.

25:05 - Which is used very commonly for.

25:08 - Hanging things from

25:09 - other hooks or from.

25:11 - Fireplaces and so forth.

25:14 - So he has steel in the fire.

25:16 - And he's going to.

25:18 - Cut it off here.

25:20 - What he has in the.

25:22 - Anvil

25:23 - which is why these.

25:24 - Is what's called a hot cut.

25:27 - Or.

25:28 - Cut hearty.

25:31 - And he cuts it nearly off

25:33 - and then.

25:35 - Twisted.

25:37 - So you have a few.

25:39 - Several.

25:40 - Half a minute

25:41 - depending on the

25:42 - size of the stock.

25:44 - To work on it.

25:45 - Presently.

25:47 - Putting a point on it.

25:52 - And.

25:53 - He works backwards.

25:55 - With his hammer.

25:58 - We generally do everything from

26:00 - square to round.

26:02 - Or square to octagonal to round.

26:05 - Because we can.

26:08 - Weekend we know

26:08 - where we're going

26:09 - and we know what the steel is

26:11 - doing.

26:13 - Back in the fire

26:14 - eating it up.

26:17 - Generally we

26:18 - work at

26:19 - anywhere from

26:20 - say fifteen hundred

26:22 - twenty one hundred degrees.

26:25 - Now maybe around

26:25 - fifteen hundred.

26:28 - Just

26:29 - as you see he.

26:30 - Squared it

26:31 - he.

26:32 - Made it octagonal

26:33 - and now he's taking the.

26:35 - Final.

26:37 - Bridges off and making it round.

26:39 - What he's doing

26:41 - now is bending it

26:42 - over the side coming backwards.

26:44 - And creating what's

26:45 - called a rat tailed.

26:46 - Which is very common and

26:48 - a lot of.

26:49 - Colonial.

26:53 - Ironwork.

26:54 - Is dipping it in there to freeze

26:56 - it or to keep it from moving.

26:58 - Because now it's in the heat.

27:01 - He's going to heat that area.

27:03 - That he just was working with.

27:06 - Backup

27:07 - but he doesn't want

27:08 - to burn that small area.

27:09 - Nor when he hits it.

27:11 - Does he want to.

27:14 - Make.

27:14 - That area move

27:16 - because he's done

27:17 - such a wonderful job at.

27:19 - Making that crit twist.

27:21 - So he.

27:22 - Cools it again.

27:23 - He wants a little bit hotter

27:25 - so it's back into the fire.

27:29 - If he would just leave it

27:30 - where it is and not cool

27:32 - it

27:32 - may just burn.

27:34 - So he wants to keep it

27:35 - cool he's going to hit on it.

27:37 - To

27:38 - make that.

27:40 - Curve or turn.

27:43 - So now he's.

27:45 - Creating the hook.

27:50 - Tidying it up.

27:59 - He turns his attention

28:00 - to the other end.

28:04 - Using the tongs

28:05 - he doesn't get

28:06 - his fingers burned.

28:07 - On that very hot end

28:08 - even though that looks.

28:10 - Cool.

28:11 - That's still probably around

28:12 - seven hundred degrees.

28:14 - So it will.

28:15 - Burn the fingers.

28:18 - This is a bottom draft forge

28:21 - the air comes up from the

28:23 - bottom as he turns that handle

28:25 - there's multiple fan blades

28:27 - like a paddle wheel in there.

28:29 - Blows it up through

28:31 - it increases the

28:32 - heat from just an idle.

28:34 - To a full blown roar.

28:39 - He's going to do very

28:41 - much the same on the other side.

28:51 - Pointing it.

28:56 - Making a square.

28:59 - Or you would make it square

29:01 - even without the round bar.

29:03 - Because you can tell where

29:05 - the edges are and he can tell

29:07 - how far he's made it.

29:10 - With it's square

29:11 - like that he's

29:11 - taking the edges off.

29:14 - He's taking more edges off

29:16 - and as he takes more edges off

29:18 - becomes more

29:19 - and more round.

29:26 - Hearing it

29:27 - at that heat

29:29 - really doesn't forge it.

29:31 - But it plan issues it

29:32 - where it polishes it it.

29:35 - Makes it.

29:36 - Takes the little bumps out and

29:37 - makes the bumps much smoother.

29:40 - Back into the fire

29:41 - and heating it back up.

29:43 - The thinner

29:44 - the metal is.

29:45 - The faster it heats

29:47 - so he has to watch it.

29:49 - A little more carefully.

29:50 - Then when it's full.

29:52 - Full size.

29:54 - Gently.

29:56 - Over the edge

29:57 - backwards

29:58 - to make that little rat tail.

30:07 - Straightening things

30:08 - out back into the forge.

30:11 - Cooling it off and then

30:12 - back into the forge.

30:20 - Heavier portion of the hook.

30:23 - Gets a little head start.

30:38 - Cooling it.

30:39 - So the the area.

30:42 - That we

30:43 - work in.

30:44 - Is called the smithy.

30:46 - May

30:47 - people will say the

30:47 - Smith or something but.

30:49 - This is the smithy.

30:51 - What he's working

30:52 - with is a forge.

30:55 - And now he's

30:58 - because he's cooled that

31:00 - he can hit that without it

31:01 - moving.

31:03 - And turned to.

31:04 - Go hook.

31:22 - So what he's going to do

31:23 - now is put it back in the forge.

31:26 - But

31:27 - he's going to.

31:28 - Heat.

31:29 - The middle portion of the.

31:31 - Arm.

31:31 - If you tried to do this.

31:33 - You could

31:34 - certainly struggle

31:35 - with it and twist it.

31:36 - With enough force.

31:38 - But.

31:39 - With him.

31:40 - Heating it up.

31:42 - It makes it.

31:43 - Much more.

31:44 - And the.

31:46 - The amount of force

31:47 - that you need goes from

31:49 - tremendous

31:50 - to twisting it just like

31:52 - a piece of Clay.

31:55 - And actually we do

31:56 - use Clay a lotta times.

31:58 - With the things to

31:59 - make new things and

32:01 - to test out how we're going to

32:03 - form something

32:04 - our going to twisted

32:05 - and the steps that we're

32:06 - going to do to do something.

32:09 - And so a little bit of heat.

32:14 - Here.

32:15 - While we're burning is a.

32:20 - Buy terminus or a soft coal.

32:23 - It.

32:23 - Is softer than the

32:25 - anthracite coal.

32:27 - It has a lot of.

32:29 - Plasticizers which

32:30 - cause it to clump together.

32:33 - Whereas anthracite.

32:34 - Just goes into ash shes.

32:37 - And

32:37 - it just works a

32:38 - little bit better.

32:40 - For this process.

32:42 - So he grabs it in the vice.

32:47 - And he's going to use.

32:49 - High tech twisting.

32:51 - Wrench.

32:53 - And you say it's just

32:54 - like one or two fingers.

32:57 - And it

32:58 - it twists very gently.

33:05 - What's coming off of it.

33:07 - Is called scale

33:08 - it's

33:09 - iron oxide.

33:10 - Is just like a rust.

33:12 - The oxygen from

33:13 - the forge the heat.

33:15 - Causes it

33:16 - super fast rusting.

33:18 - And that comes off

33:19 - at and.

33:21 - He's now brushing

33:22 - it off with brush.

33:25 - Making it.

33:28 - But job.

33:31 - Shiny or.

33:34 - He's got a handful of.

33:37 - Bees wax there.

33:39 - And again that's probably.

33:42 - Seven hundred degrees.

33:45 - One tries never to.

33:48 - Get between not

33:48 - metal in the ground.

33:57 - Beeswax.

33:59 - Acts just like any other wax.

34:01 - It

34:01 - protects it from.

34:03 - The moisture.

34:05 - Brightens it up a little bit.

34:09 - And on utensils it's food-safe.

34:28 - He's working fairly.

34:30 - A fairly hot.

34:31 - Sometimes you want

34:32 - to do that a little bit.

34:33 - Cooler

34:34 - it doesn't burn as much but.

34:37 - When it's done that hot

34:38 - it actually kind of carbonized

34:40 - and you get a black.

34:43 - The.

34:43 - Coloration to the.

34:46 - To it when you're done.

34:48 - Almost like looking at

34:49 - it it almost looks painted.

34:51 - But it's actually not.

35:14 - And.

35:16 - Except.

35:17 - When that cools down

35:18 - it'll be ready to hang.

35:21 - Pots.

35:23 - Plants.

35:26 - Cookware whatever

35:27 - you need to hang.

35:55 - What he has in his

35:56 - hands is a pair of tongs

35:58 - we have just a few here.

36:00 - But.

36:01 - Oftentimes you'll

36:02 - go into the smithy.

36:04 - And you'll see

36:05 - hundreds of tongs because.

36:07 - If they don't

36:08 - hold what you're

36:09 - hitting.

36:10 - Very tightly and very well.

36:13 - It may come up and.

36:15 - Hit you in the face.

36:17 - Hit you in the leg.

36:18 - Burn

36:19 - somebody else.

36:21 - So.

36:22 - We have different ones

36:23 - for different pieces of metal.

36:25 - So

36:26 - thank you very much for.

36:28 - Attending our little.

36:31 - Blacksmith shop

36:32 - and I hope that you

36:33 - have a good day.

36:35 - Thank you.

36:37 - At.

36:57 - That.

37:03 - Could afternoon.

37:04 - You're in the

37:05 - historic section of the

37:06 - bloomsburg fair.

37:07 - The fair started at

37:08 - eighteen fifty five

37:10 - the same time.

37:11 - The barton house was built.

37:13 - The man that build

37:14 - a Caleb barton.

37:15 - Myself.

37:17 - Decide he added that he would

37:18 - treat his neighbors through

37:19 - the opportunity to show

37:21 - some of the neat

37:21 - things that they'd grown.

37:24 - I have a mill up that way.

37:26 - Still standing today.

37:27 - The fair and the

37:29 - and the.

37:31 - House are

37:31 - very intimately

37:32 - connected chronologically.

37:34 - Because of the fact that

37:35 - it's been here so long where.

37:38 - We decided to turn into a

37:39 - museum the way it used to be

37:41 - back in eighty fifty

37:42 - five when it was built.

37:44 - Right now we're standing at

37:45 - the edge of the gardens and the

37:46 - gardens are maintained by the.

37:48 - Efficient Greek herb guild

37:50 - they do a beautiful

37:51 - job of making sure that.

37:52 - Everything is at it's peak

37:54 - at the time of the fair.

37:55 - We have

37:56 - renos we have a

37:57 - tent off to our left

37:58 - we have in the

37:59 - background we have the.

38:03 - Pennsylvania bucktail

38:04 - brigade or guardian or property.

38:06 - There's a lot to see

38:07 - around the building.

38:09 - Inside the building.

38:11 - We have we've turned the clock

38:12 - back to the way it was when it

38:14 - was built.

38:15 - The decor the.

38:17 - Is the the wallpaper

38:19 - the floor and mature

38:20 - original to the building.

38:22 - Some things had to be.

38:23 - Researched

38:24 - quite excessively to figure out

38:25 - exactly what Lucy to look like.

38:27 - Because people have lived in

38:28 - the building for well over one

38:30 - hundred years

38:31 - and we've done a

38:32 - good job to be as

38:34 - historically accurate as we can.

38:36 - It is

38:36 - around the outside we

38:37 - have old farm machinery

38:39 - some of which may be in pretty.

38:41 - Poor repair

38:42 - with some of it looks like it

38:44 - could be put to work today.

38:46 - We have an old fashioned

38:47 - steamroller over that way which

38:49 - I I grew up loving

38:50 - mechanical things so I

38:52 - I like to look at all

38:53 - the old machinery

38:55 - is really for fascinating.

38:57 - We have

38:57 - along with the

38:58 - reenactors in the backyard

39:00 - we have reenactors in the front

39:01 - we have our civil war surgeon.

39:03 - Who can show you

39:05 - all the great advances

39:06 - made during the civil war

39:08 - but still makes you

39:09 - appreciate today's medicine

39:10 - we've come a long ways.

39:12 - When I tour the

39:13 - inside with people

39:15 - the women's they all those

39:16 - dresses are so beautiful I would

39:18 - love to live back then.

39:20 - And I always caution them on a

39:22 - dose of reality.

39:24 - Many of the things

39:25 - that are inside of

39:26 - the way that the wealthy

39:28 - people lived at the time.

39:30 - Today are.

39:31 - Even people with

39:32 - very few resources

39:33 - have life much easier.

39:35 - And I point out but what it'd

39:36 - be like to have to walk through

39:38 - the snow at three o'clock

39:39 - in the morning to go out to

39:41 - that room over there.

39:42 - Where people are much

39:43 - friendlier than they have.

39:45 - To holler for adults

39:47 - to holder for children.

39:48 - There's so much you

39:49 - can see when you come

39:51 - to the bloomsburg fair.

39:52 - There's a neat place to hang out

39:54 - wherever porch and where people

39:56 - can sit down and relax and

39:57 - enjoy themselves.

39:59 - If they're hot

40:00 - they can sit in

40:01 - the shade if they're

40:02 - cold they can sit in the sun.

40:04 - Beautiful place to

40:05 - spend an afternoon.

40:07 - And.

40:33 - Thank you again for.

40:36 - Coming on our journey today

40:37 - through the buns burgh fair

40:38 - without you folks

40:39 - we cannot put this.

40:40 - Program together

40:41 - and we really appreciate

40:42 - when you come

40:43 - also we have some

40:44 - events throughout the year

40:46 - you can watch US on our

40:47 - website at most workfare dot

40:49 - com also our Facebook page.

40:51 - Bloomsburg fair

40:52 - and interact with US there

40:54 - or you can call the main office

40:55 - at five seven o seven eight

40:57 - four forty nine forty nine

40:59 - and throughout the summer we

41:00 - have all kinds

41:00 - of different shows

41:01 - that go on here at

41:01 - the bloomsburg fair

41:02 - that you can

41:03 - come see throughout the year.

41:05 - And we would again would

41:06 - like to really thank you for.

41:07 - Taking this journey

41:08 - today with US

41:09 - through the bloomsburg fair.


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