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At 82, farrier still teaching ancient art of shoeing horses Follow Us Question of the Day PHILADELPHIA (AP) - 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. TOP STORIES While those heavy hands can smash a golf ball - he once shot a 69 - Pistilli would rather be awash in flying sparks and curling black smoke in his garage like some Roman god of fire. At 82, he still works as a farrier, someone who trims and shoes horse hooves, and since it’s never felt like a job, he doesn’t think about retiring. He once put a shoe on Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and is a member of the Brotherhood of Working Farriers Association� ....
At 82, Bethlehem area farrier still teaching ancient art of shoeing horses Updated 5:00 PM; Today 5:00 PM Sonny Pistilli works at his horseshoe workshop Friday, March 27, 2021, outside Bethlehem.Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP Facebook Share 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. ....