All are welcome! Coffee and donuts and lunch will be provided. As always, there will be an Iron In The Hat (please bring items to donate to help raise money for meetings), tailgating is welcome (try to leave parking spaces in front of the garage doors for tailgater and feel free to bring stuff to sell).  Please bring a chair if so desired but we will also have bleachers. It will be at the same address as before but I now own the building so the meeting will be in the upper shop.

To help facilitate lunch, it would be great to have a general head count. Please give me a ring or an e-mail to let me know if you will be coming. Email: ericuper@hotmail.com  I look forward to seeing you here.

About Dick Sargent

Started blacksmithing in 1971 at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge Ma. In 1974 he moved to Newport, RI. to partner with Newton Millham and work for the Newport Restoration foundation. There he and Tony produced 18th century hardware and railings for more than fifty colonial period home restorations.

In 1976 he back to Vermont where he opened a shop and produced a mail order catalog selling 17th and 18th century reproduction hardware. In 1997 Dick moved to Glenn Cove, Long Island to work as lead blacksmith/foreman for Roslyn Metal Craft a third generation high end ornamental iron shop.

In 2004 he took the position of Department Head of Blacksmithing at Peters Valley School of Craft in Layton, NJ. After a ten year stint there he once again came home to Vermont where he is building a small retirement shop and spends his time guest teaching at craft schools and demoing for guys like you at ABANA affiliates.

He is part of the 2020 ABANA conference committee and is scheduled to demo at the conference in Saratoga with his friends Peter Ross and Robert Valentine.

Dick will demonstrate a collage of techniques including traditional joinery as well as how to maintain quality while meeting productions needs. He will gladly demonstrate based on the requests of our group, so bring your questions.