In 1959, Bill Smith was an apprentice learning how to build the wooden patterns that foundries use to crank out everything from cast-iron cornbread skillets to the steel wheels on U.S. Tim Omarzu ...
ANACONDA — Before it was metal, it was wood. A new exhibit at the Copper Village Museum and Arts Center in Anaconda features more than 120 old wooden patterns that were used to create the molds for ...