About « Ed Land Blacksmith

Ed Land
• Blacksmithing since 1985
portrait-ed
• Helped establish a blacksmith shop for Lisle IL Park
District as President of the Lisle Heritage Society 1986

• Studied blacksmithing with Melvin Lytton, Connor Prairie IN, an 1830 historic site

• Worked for 10 years as an historic blacksmith at Historic Bethlehem Parnership’s reconstructed Moravian smithy shop as a demonstrator and interpreter to the public as well as for special events and tours.

• Presently Head Smithy at Historic Bethlehem Partnership (3 years)

Blacksmith Demonstrations:

Museum of Early Trades & Crafts, Madison, NJ
New Jersey Antique Tool Collectors annual event
Pottsgrove Manor, national historic site in Pottstown, PA for annual events plus home-school special events
Bryn Athyn (Swedenborg) New Church for festival events
250th anniversary celebration of Hereford Township
East Greenville Historic Days
Carriage Museum in New Tripoli
Reading River Fest in conjunction with Greg Leavitt
Montgomery Community College in Pottstown
Mid-Atlantic Herb Growers meeting
Clay on Main Art Cooperative
Jacobsburg State Park Historic Site
Easton PA Heritage Festival
Baconfest, Easton PA
National Canal Museum, Easton PA

Previous Gallery Exhibitions:
Montgomery Community College in Pottstown, PA
Clay on Main – Oley, PA
Kemmerer Museum, Bethlehem, PA

Professional Organizations:
Member of PABA and ABANA
Guest in the shop of professional colleagues Greg and Camille Leavitt
Guest in the blacksmith shop at Williamsburg making bloomer iron

Currently:

Conducting private lessons at personal shop at Landhaven Bed & Breakfast, Barto Pa
Collaborating with fellow blacksmith Paul Beatty for commissioned artwork: weather vanes, garden art, fence decorations, historic restorations, antique tool reproductions, other decorative art
Purchase art through Ed, at Kemmerer Museum in Bethlehem, at the National Canal Museum in Easton and at Mercantile Home in Easton.