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...course, these 14-to-17-year-olds won't be traversing the entire forest, which skips back and forth across the New Hampshire-Maine border. Most of the action in this $1400 program will occur in the rugged Mahoosuc Range. They'll construct "water bars" from felled timber or rocks to divert water from the trails, and create rock-filled wood boxes, called cribs, to raise the treadways above marsh lines. They may even repair the Appalachian Trail, which runs through the middle of the range...
...first, the story is one of displacement and adaptation. The severe, timber-framed houses of the New England Puritans are the same houses that were built in Old England, in East Anglia, in the 17th century, because that was what the Puritans knew how to build. The Fraktur paintings and the massive decorated schranks, or family wardrobes, made by the Pennsylvania Dutch were German decorative arts, transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung...
...angry because I wanted Larry to stick around. I wanted him to invest himself in his club, his team, his Celtics. It seems like all of my great Boston sports heroes are moving on. McHale is doing great work with the Timber-wolves. Ainge is with the Suns. The Chief is working towards another NBA title in Chicago. Roger Clemens moved on to Toronto. Why couldn't they all just stick around and bring back Boston's slumping professional sports...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We should have the right to harvest the timber. We should have never been stopped by environmental issues ... Our mills should not have been shut down and our economic position sent to utter chaos...
...Metcalf was the oldest member of the 1994 G.O.P. freshman class. He has campaigned on his support for term limits and timber interests, emphasizing that his work for Medicare reform is only to save it from bankruptcy. Recent campaign visits from House majority leader Dick Armey and California Congressman Sonny Bono reflect how serious the G.O.P. is about this historically Democratic district...