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NEWSMAKERS Horse-drawn carriages may be ancient in a world where
technology is constantly improving means of transportation and other areas of
our lives, but for Charleston, SC, blacksmith Philip Simmons, the art of being a
blacksmith ...

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86 " Philip Simmons : Afro - American Blacksmith . " In Black People and Their
Culture , edited by ... TP785.044 " The Craftsman and the Communal Image :
Philip Simmons , Charleston Blacksmith . " Family Heritage 2 ( February 1979 ) :
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Celebrated Charleston blacksmith, Philip Simmons, who is best known for his
ornamental ironwork, was recently ... 200 decorative pieces including •gates,
fences and balconies, the majority of which are located in Charleston's historic
districts.

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... and cultures of coastal South Carolina . The trip to Charleston included a visit
with Mary Jane Bennett , one of the many sweetgrass basket weavers in the area
, and an opportunity to meet Philip Simmons , the noted Charleston blacksmith ...

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The Anvil s Ring

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Metalworker and John Vlatch ' s Phillip Simmons , í Unfortunately , Charleston
Blacksmith all offered different insights . A check of the listings of metalwork
organizations on a dark led me to the Artist Blacksmith Association of and rainy
North ...

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Charleston Blacksmith : The World of Philip Simmons John Vlach . Athens : The
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Preserving Charleston s Past Shaping Its Future

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Preserving Charleston s Past Shaping Its Future

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In the post-Civil War period, Southern women slowly shook loose from the longstanding image of the lady on the pedestal and, through club work and group association, developed independence and began to affect public life. One such notable new woman was Charleston's Susan Pringle Frost (1873-1960). This book recounts the life story of this active woman, describing her background, philosophy, and accomplishments in the area of advancing the image of the woman in society. A member of an illustrious old family, Frost constantly challenged convention, as a federal district court stenographer, as a real estate woman with an office in the professional district, as a women's rights advocate. She helped get women admitted to the College of Charleston and headed city and state National Woman's Party efforts to achieve women's suffrage and later, the Equal Rights Amendment. Bland asserts that Frost is chiefly important, however, as an historic preservationist. In a rapidly expanding sweep, beginning about 1909, Miss Frost bought and renovated numerous houses in the historic East Battery ristrict. Indebtedness mounted, and to aid her efforts she founded and for many years headed the Preservation Society of Charleston. On several Charleston civic commissions and, in her seventies, still a member of the Zoning Board, Susan Frost was a life-long worker for city betterment and tirelessly monitored Charleston preservation efforts. Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future shows how a preservation pioneer, Susan Pringle Frost, helped shape the Southern new woman image and served as a role model for women of all generations.

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by Anand Prahlad

Farm blacksmiths made tools , repaired farm implements and maintained wagons
and plows . ... on Daniel Island , one of the Sea Islands off the Carolina coast ,
and then he moved to Charleston at the age of thirteen to become a blacksmith .

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Contains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.

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South Carolina Naturalizations 1783 1850

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This work contains abstracts of the records of approximately 7,500 persons who were naturalized in the state of South Carolina between the years 1783 and 1850. As it is based not only on the records of various jurisdictions but on the various types of records associated with naturalization, such as declarations of intent, petitions and actual citizenship certificates, information given in the volume varies to a rather marked degree. In general, however, some or all of the following data is evident: name, country of origin, place of residence in the U.S., occupation, date of arrival in the U.S., and date of application or admission.

Afro American Folk Art and Crafts

by William R. Ferris

Includes a discussion of the work of blacksmith Philip Simmons of Charleston ,
South Carolina . . " ' Us Quarters Fixed Fine ' : Finding Black Builders in Southern
History . " In Perspectives on the American South . Edited by James C . Cobb and
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Afro American Folk Art and Crafts

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PHILIP SIMMONS CHARLESTON BLACKSMITH by John Michael Vlach Twenty
Years and Still Marching by Joe Pfister 20 YEARS. After the thirteenth year , then
I got kind of serious in the blacksmith shop . You know , six , seven , eight ...

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How Sweet the Sound

by Nancy Elizabeth Fitch

13 Vlach ' s second essay is about Philip Simmons , blacksmith and worker in
iron , excerpted from his book Charleston Blacksmith : The Work of Philip
Simmons . 14 Here Vlach discusses geography and character , in this case that
of Daniel ...

How Sweet the Sound

Author: Nancy Elizabeth Fitch

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

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This new reader contains 38 selections relating to African American cultural history. Drawing upon the author's interest and expertise in oral traditions, this reader identifies historical "texts" that reveal thought and achievement in African American communities in the United States. Professor Fitch emphasizes such non-written records as orature, movement and dance, vernacular architecture, and the plastic arts in combating the notion that traditionally oral communities have little to offer historians. HOW SWEET THE SOUND portrays the urgency and vibrancy of African American history.

The Regional Arts of the Early South

by Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Unlike a fullscale blast furnace , a foundry operation was essentially a large
version of a blacksmith ' s forge used to melt commercial pig iron for running
hollow ware and other such objects . In 1802 John Johnson , a Charleston
blacksmith ...

The Regional Arts of the Early South

Author: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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Outlines the histories of each region and makes general statements about stylistic trends and then discusses specific objects in their cultural context.

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

by Charles Reagan Wilson

He proudly carried on a profession that had been practiced in Charleston since
1739 and for which he can trace a personal genealogy of blacksmiths back to the
18th century . But despite the comforting influence of a praiseworthy history and ...

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author: Charles Reagan Wilson

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Offers a large-scale, detailed portrait of life and culture in the Southern United States. Bibliogs

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... 183 - 184 272 ; map , 21 The Civic Club ( Charleston , S . C . ) 183 Charleston
Area Comprehensive Health Civil liberties , 150rev Planning Council ( S . C . ) ,
197 Civil Rights movement , 298rev ; planning , Charleston Blacksmith : The
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NEWSMAKERS South Carolina Blacksmith , Age 86 , Keeps His Vintage Craft
Alive Horse - drawn carriages may be an was the only blacksmith in ... Then I was
the oldest recent creations of exquisite gates , blacksmith in Charleston .

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