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By Salue Morgan
Special to the Rappahannock News
On Friday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m., the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) will feature artist-blacksmith Nol Putnam as the first speaker of its 2002 Friday at the Library series.
Mr. Putnam is widely known as an award-winning artist whose work has been celebrated in the Washington Post and in a recent documentary film entitled “The Prophet of The Plains.”
The prophet is Putnam himself, and the Plains refers to the fact that he operated his forge in The Plains, Va. from 1982 through the summer of 2001, when he moved his studio to his home/land in Flint Hill to have more time to do his “own work.”
Trained as a historian and educator, Mr. Putnam became a selftaught blacksmith in 1973. Over the years he has specialized in oneof-a-kind. architectural scale, hot forged ironwork. In 1988, he was selected to become the next in a line of smiths for the Washington National Cathedral, for which he has designed and created three gates and numerous railings. In 2001, he also created four six-foot candlesticks for the Cathedral.
Mr. Putnam’s other installations in public buildings include a gate at the National Council of Negro Women in Washington DC, a plant stand at the Alice Pike Barney House of the Smithsonian Institution, an exterior Cross at
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