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...they come in. Oak is both strong and rot-resistant, and is also used on the bottom of the boat. Elm is employed in some sections because it's strong and won't split. The breasthooks, two big solid pieces at both ends of the boat, are made from basswood, since it's easy to carve. The decks are cut from mahogany...
...white photographs of his work because he believes color photos encourage an appreciation of the merely picturesque in architecture. He insisted that some of the walls of the gallery be covered with rough plaster, like many of Holl's own interiors. And he demanded that certain salient details -- a basswood-and-airplane silk screen from a Manhattan apartment, for instance -- be built right into the exhibit's walls. Fortunately, the museum indulged him: the result (on display together with a handsome exhibit of Emilio Ambasz buildings) is the liveliest MOMA architectural show in years and palpable evidence that Holl...
...village of Soldiers Grove (pop. 616), snugly settled in the white oak, pine and basswood hills of southern Wisconsin, is slowly coming awake again, like a patient after a successful heart transplant. In this case, the village is undergoing urban surgery. "Soldiers Grove's survival," boasts one resident, "has been a matter of gumption...
Wheatland's problem is a common one among instrument collectors. Sundials, astrolabes, globes, telescopes, and microscopes are old favorites with antique buyers who admire the shiny brasswork, wax the basswood, and wonder what the gorgeous object was ever used for. While the stiff bidding of these amateur antiquaries has made much of Harvard's collection too valuable to risk exhibiting, their uneducated enthusiasm has depressed its worth in the marketplace of ideas. It is scarcely surprising, with more interior decorators than scientists in the field, that scientific artifacts do not attract any significant number of scrupulous scholars. --From an account...
Made in U.S.A. Like barbed wire and bifocal eyeglasses, this brand of humor is a U.S. invention. It is as pure an expression of Yankee or backwoods genius as the coonskin cap and the basswood spittoon. The latest to work it over is Tennessee-born James R. Aswell, who has dug out about 100 items (including the above, by Tennessee's George W. Harris about 1845) from old books, newspapers and magazines...