The 2013 Southern Blacksmith Association Conference is this weekend May 16th, 17th, and 18th. Since this falls on our regular meeting weekend. The conference will serve as our meeting location. The Alex Bealer Blacksmith Association is in charge of the 'Green Coal' beginning blacksmith classes. See Tony Bivens at the Green Coal area to give a hand with the classes.

Bring something for Iron-in-the-Hat for the conference and something for the Tool Box raffle.

Conference information is on the conference website at www.sbaconference.org

There will be vendors, great tailgate sales of all things blacksmithing and over 300 fellow smithing enthusiasts.

This is our group's contribution to the conference project. Thanks to Phil Laudenslager, Lloyd Hendricks, and Sean O'Shea for production of this piece.