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.

“We used to just pass through and just watch these guys beat on this metal with the sparks and all. I think that had a lot of influence with me enjoying the work of metal,” said Reeves.

What’s it like for you to take a raw piece of metal and then, with a hammer and a fire, turn it into somethin

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