NEW ORLEANS, La. (WAFB) – In New Orleans, the city’s architecture is often framed in iron, centuries of old balconies, fences, and gates that survived fires and hurricanes. And here at Andrew’s welding and blacksmith shop, Darrell Reeves is one of the few who still carry on the tradition.
“My grandfather was a blacksmith on St. Emma plantation,” said Reeves.
Reeves remembers being shooed away as a boy from his grandfather’s shop in Donaldsonville. But the memory of the blacksmith stuck with him…