Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts

Friday, 21 June 2013

Future Faces Video: Sarah Coltrin, Farrier-Eventer, Shoes to Ride as She Joins the New Cadre of Equestrian Smiths




What do you say to someone who is new in the profession? Sometimes it's best to be quiet and hear what they have to say.

You might learn something.




After all, they are the future. We may be the present, but we won't always be.

And once upon a time, we were the future.



So sit still for five minutes and listen to Sarah Coltrin. 


That's exactly what filmmaker-photographer (and

Monday, 23 May 2011

An Unusually Silent Anvil: Ron Dyer ("The Horseshoer")

 I learned tonight, completely by accident while researching something on the web, that Ron Dyer the Horseshoer (as he called himself) died on April 23, just shy of his 84th birthday. I don't have much information, perhaps other people have already announced his passing, but I had no idea.

When I knocked on the door of the farrier profession, I immediately noticed that people tended to cluster