Category: forestry
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Pitch Pine
Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe … << BEFORE: Candles from hogs …
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Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)
Some examples of “early amusements” from Smith’s History of Peterborough (1876):
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The Wood-Pile (Robert Frost)
I spent the afternoon exploring the winter woods on the mountain, and came back home to spend the evening with this poem by Robert Frost…
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ADVENTURES of a DEAF-MUTE… (Cover & Intro Links)
Let’s kick off this series with a pin-up image of Mr. Swett in the Flume…
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Pring 15 ~ Final Fire
1603: The dogs save the fort, communications break down, and the expedition heads for home in this EXCITING CONCLUSION of Martin Pring’s Journal!
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Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
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Live Free and Draw Wood (Keene, c.1812)
An example of how NH town governments kept costs low 200 years ago: the annual minister’s firewood bee!
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Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full
Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …
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Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
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Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
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A Very Singular Circumstance (Henniker, 1775)
Out of the firing line, into the forest. 19 April 1775 SOURCE: Cogswell’s History of Henniker (p.262)