Our company spent the day with the Duggar family of TLC and Discovery fame. They are a great family from Northwest Arkansas with 19 children. They brought two camera crews and toured Stone County Ironworks. The episode that they filmed will likely air sometime in May. It was a lot of stress to prepare for…but a lot of fun! We had bluegrass music on the square and the Duggars sang I'll Fly Away. We served a fine BBQ lunch to the Duggars and our Blacksmiths...catered at the forge by Mikeys Smoked Meats…and then we all watched as one of our master blacksmiths built an incredible tree complete with textured bark and one of those squirrel holes in the trunk.
It was so beautiful and realistic. The Duggar kids, dressed in way-too-big blacksmith aprons and gloves, helped bend and shape the hot iron to make that tree. They also learned all about blacksmithing, a tradition that’s pretty important around here! Then the kids each got a shot at some part of leaf-making. The leaves ultimately ended up hanging on the tree that we made…The Duggar Family tree. One leaf for each child. It was amazing. 19 leaves…plus two more. One more for Joshua’s wife Anna, and another for their first child (grandbaby number one of many I am sure) McKenzie.
We had a wonderful time. The tree was mounted to a beautiful cedar wood base with an inscription…Children are a blessing from the Lord. You know what? I really believe that! Yeah.
Corky Baker
President and Chief Leaf Maker
It was so beautiful and realistic. The Duggar kids, dressed in way-too-big blacksmith aprons and gloves, helped bend and shape the hot iron to make that tree. They also learned all about blacksmithing, a tradition that’s pretty important around here! Then the kids each got a shot at some part of leaf-making. The leaves ultimately ended up hanging on the tree that we made…The Duggar Family tree. One leaf for each child. It was amazing. 19 leaves…plus two more. One more for Joshua’s wife Anna, and another for their first child (grandbaby number one of many I am sure) McKenzie.
We had a wonderful time. The tree was mounted to a beautiful cedar wood base with an inscription…Children are a blessing from the Lord. You know what? I really believe that! Yeah.
Corky Baker
President and Chief Leaf Maker
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