Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Lionsfan]

Looks fun! Are the salmon landlocked Atlantics? We catch an Atlantic once every few years on Lake Michigan.

That's an Atlantic.

 

[GrizG]

I just read an academic journal article about the Ellenville (NY) Glass Works. In the section about the period 1840-1870 the company bought 125 properties. Some was used for the factory, some to house the workers, but most to supply the 10,000 cord of firewood per year needed at the factory. No chainsaws or feller bunchers in that period! Think about that for a moment!

For you bottle collectors… you might be interested in this article. It appeared in The Hudson River Valley Review, Volume. 38, No 2, Spring 2022. (Marist College). I attended a program last evening by the author, Alex Prizgintas.

 

[MechanicMatt]

I just read an academic journal article about the Ellenville (NY) Glass Works. In the section about the period 1840-1870 the company bought 125 properties. Some was used for the factory, some to house the workers, but most to supply the 10,000 cord of firewood per year needed at the factory. No chainsaws or feller bunchers in that period! Think about that for a moment!

For you bottle collectors… you might be interested in this article. It appeared in The Hudson River Valley Review, Volume. 38, No 2, Spring 2022. (Marist College). I attended a program last evening by the author, Alex Prizgintas.

Sad when you think about the heritage of this area and how all the jobs were moved overseas

Walden and Ellenville both were places Schade had knife factories

Now they have little business in both towns

 

[GrizG]

Sad when you think about the heritage of this area and how all the jobs were moved overseas

Walden and Ellenville both were places Schade had knife factories

Now they have little business in both towns

The only sign the glassworks ever existed is literally a historical marker sign… the O&W RR station in Ellenville sits on the site of the factory. The O&W was shut down in 1957. About 4 years ago the glass company’s general store building was torn down… it was the last structure.

The Schrade and Channel Master sites in Ellenville are barely recognizable with most of those structures gone too.

The loss of industry in NY is very visible along the Erie Canal corridor… lots of rotting infrastructure. Sadly Remington is among that loss.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The wat NY treated Remington, they should have left long ago.

SR

 

[Sampson]

Looks fun! Are the salmon landlocked Atlantics? We catch an Atlantic once every few years on Lake Michigan.

Yessir! Best eating fish we are allowed to retain in the province. The sea run atlantics that go out to sea to mature and come back to the rivers to spawn are even better table fare, but we are no longer allowed to retain them. Sadly, due to poor management, most notably the lax enforcement of buffer zones adjacent to waterways and the resulting runoff from clearcuts that fills rivers in with silt makes for unhospitable conditions for salmonids. The once abundant fishery that accounted for big tourism $ and a history of recreation for locals is on the way out. Thankfully we still have some opportunities to get future generations interested in the outdoors.