I was recently in a big-box farm-supply store and saw a large sign that read, “Wood Chopping Headquarters.” What they meant, of course, was not chopping, but splitting.…
Wood Lit
Book reviews from Northern Woodlands magazine.
December 21st 2015
Adirondack Hermits: Solitary Life in the Northwoods
This is a story about Adirondack hermits, but the place and time in which it unfolds are as big a part of the tale as anything else. It was the late 1800s, see, and everything in America was…
February 8th 2010
The Wood Chemical Industry in the Northeast: An Old Industry with New Possibilities
With the discovery that crude oil could be refined into a seemingly endless variety of products, petroleum became one of the most important substances on earth. Now, more than a century later,…