Hear, Hear, Sir!RobesonsRme.com wrote:MB; I saw this when you first posted it, but I've delayed reading it until today.
Fascinating, poignant and sad all at the same time.
Killing a young grinder at twenty-four years of age with aspiration consumption (not the same thing as TB) is nothing for anybody to have been proud of.
As much as we love these things we cherish, knives, we must never forget the sacrifices of those that built them.
Charlie Noyes
Sometimes I'm as guilty of romantisizing America's Knife manufacturing past as others are because the beautiful little piece of edged art I hold in my hand doesn't in and of itself speak of the pain and suffering--the alcoholism, drugery and often poverty-- of the folks who were it's creators. I'm grateful to find stories like these and I actively seek them out in order to remember there was a great price paid for the knife I paid a great price for.