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The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
A hook is hammered into shape on an anvil by Dan Crowther at the Altamont Fair on Tuesday. The anvil serves as a multipurpose tool, he explained, with the holes used to hold other tools and to measure the metal for the hook. Because the anvils have differently placed holes, the hooks will have different lengths depending on the anvil used. “That’s how we have fair hooks and why we have home hooks,” said his wife and fellow smith, Sarah Ritchie-Crowther.