courtesy of the Mountain Echo Archives A sharp, melodious clang of hammer on anvil and Yellville’s only Blacksmith is “back in business!” Actually, Wallie Burleson, 65-year-old Marion County citizen, hasn’t been in any other “business” since he first learned the work under the late “Uncle John” Covington but, like all other professional men Wallie is happiest right at the time when he is pursuing his own trade. With a pair of tongs that’s seen many, many fires in his forge, Wallie grasps a plow and sticks it in the bellow-fire forge.
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