A Stack of Memories: Fort Klock Newspaper Clippings
On this sunny morning, I started to search for a news article about the restoration of Fort Klock Blacksmiths’ Shop. It was not an article from last week or even last year. It was 48 years old, having been published on May 7th, 1964. For you younger people, it will take a few years to know just how fast 48 years can pass. Way down in the stack I finally found that for which I searched. The article as I wrote it was a synopsis of the history of the old stone shop that had stood on the Fort Klock property for so many years, showing the importance of the blacksmith through the centuries and the efforts then being made to preserve the shop. As I searched for this article, I passed from one pile to another finding clipping after clipping which were mileposts of Fort Klock’s story and how that piece of historic property was entwined in my own existence. There in newsprint were the triumphs of a young organization’s many successes. How fortunate the much smaller number of heartbreaks did not ...