Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Gabriel Baskin, 7, of Ballston Spa, participates in a Wednesday night vigil marking the fifth anniversary of the War in Iraq, held at Broadway in Saratoga Springs. Baskin attended the vigil with his parents.