![]() His sons had observed a blacksmith in Germany who demonstrated his trade to tourists in their historic hometown. Actually I did it for my sons and as soon as I was finished, they didn’t want to blacksmith anymore,” Schneider said, laughing. He designed and built a furnace in a metal barrel, bought an old anvil and a vice. Schneider didn’t move his family to the United States so he could become a knife-maker, but that’s what happened after his two sons expressed an interest in, then abandoned, blacksmithing as a hobby. He and his wife left their restaurant, bed-and-breakfast in the hands of their employees and moved from Herrstein, Germany, with their two teenage sons to a new home a few miles outside of Fairmont. I’m a very analytic and reasonable person. “I really felt an emotion, and I felt at home, only because I was riding over the river. ![]() “As soon as I crossed the Lumber River, I felt like a core was cracked,” Schneider said. Later, Schneider came to North Carolina for a visit and for an introduction to the tribe. ![]() Schneider made contact with him and his father traveled to Germany to meet him. Many years later, his wife researched and found Schneider’s birth father, a Cherokee Lumbee from Pembroke. ![]() When Schneider was a teenager, he learned that his biological father had been a U.S. FAIRMONT - Knife-making was never on Oliver Schneider’s bucket list - nor was living in the United States.īut life had other plans for the German-born businessman and his wife, Krista, who left their home nearly four years ago to move to Robeson County. ![]()
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