What a wonderful story about your father who would recite Longfellow’s The Village Blacksmith. Longfellow lived in Cambridge, MA on Brattle St. His house is still there and you can take a tour of it. The village blacksmith was a friend of his who lived on Brattle St. Sometime you might enjoy going there and visiting the house and the site where the smithy worked.
Brattle Street is where many of the Loyalists lived prior to the Revolutionary War. It’s sometimes called Tory Row. Most of the Loyalists were forced to leave town, many moved to Canada or England. Their church still stands today, still with bullet holes in the side of the building. It was boarded up for a 15 years after the revolution but the building is still there now.
You and higgmeister are killing it tonight!