Thanks for sharing! That's amazing to have known people who had met Robert! I've heard he was quite shy at times, but also sometimes very eccentric and outspoken too. He was certainly a unique person!

That's awesome...would love to hear more..was he the outcast he considered himself to be?

@@OQuinlan-nz1md my great uncle Truman said he was bashful in public. The stories were great and my family is from a hereditary line of black smith's from Perth Scotland. My great grandfather was 6ft 6inches and weighed 300 lbs in 1900. The tales that Robert wrote with the geography and the people were fantastic.

It may be the Coldsmoke Scotch Ale I've been drinking, but methinks yours is a most excellent tale of family, of ancestors larger than life. My own interest in smithcraft stems from boyhood reading of Conan, of the Volsunga Saga, of Steel and Forging, of Sword, of Steel. It has led me down a long road these 57 years, made me a modern Man cut from the cloth of more ancient days. It stirs the blood, the spirit, to hear of your giant blacksmith forefather as I listen to the reading. Hail our ancestors, and may we be men (and women!) as hard as they at need!

@@rickanderson8683 Howard said his image of Conan was the greatest knife fighter in the world. Adapting to every opportunity.

here with u