Social media helps reunite Rigaud blacksmith with lost anvil

A Rigaud blacksmith has beenreunited with his lost anvil after social media spread the word to the entire community.

MichaelAppugliese lost his 45-kilogram iron tool last week after it fell off thistrailerin nearby Hudson, leading to a frantic search and an appeal onFacebook.

It didn't take long for word to get around, he said.

"I was at a family dinner, when someone called and said heard about it though social media," he said.

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However, one of the men who found it on the side of a roadwasn't terribly technologically plugged-in.

He went aroundknocking ondoors literally to ask if anyone heard of a blacksmith on a search for an anvil.

"People had heard the news by then. Thefirstperson he knocked on said, 'Oh my God, I know who it is,'"Appugliese said.

The anvil was an essential part of theGreystoneEquinehorse-riding school heruns with his wife in Rigaud,west of Montreal.

Appugliese was confident he'dfind his anvil. Even though it cost him $1,000, it wouldn't fetch more than $50 at a scrap yard, he said.

He even kept his optimism throughhis wife's doubts.

"She's a West Island girl, so she doesn't trust Hudson. But Hudson is an honest place," he said.