At 82, Bethlehem area farrier still teaching ancient art of shoeing horses
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Sonny Pistilli works at his horseshoe workshop Friday, March 27, 2021, outside Bethlehem.Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP
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Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a half-century of that same clanging rhythm.
“People think I’m mad at them when I shake their hands,” Pistilli joked on a recent March morning of his viselike grip.
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