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John Goffe’s Mill

George Woodbury

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Description:Ten years ago George Woodbury was an archaeologist in Harvard’s Peabody Museum; today he is owner, manager, and entire labor force of a water-power saw and gristmill originally built by his great, great, great, great grandfather two centuries ago. John Goffe’s Mill is the story of his adventure in turning an obsolete rural industry into a design for happy living.When George and Connie returned to the ancestral acres, the dam was in ruins, the mill itself had tumbled in, the old house was badly in need of repairs, and soon thereafter the hurricane of 1938 wrought havoc in the little wood lot. Assisted by Louis Lavigne, a retired woodchopper, he cleaned up the wood lot and sawed enough lumber to rebuild the mill. Little by little the rest of the work was done, most of it by George himself, some of it with the help of local artisans as obsolete as the mill itself: Desidere la Tulippe, master mason of prodigious girth; Hank Gookin, alcoholic barn framer; Kitty, monosyllabic metalsmith; and other original characters of a sort only to be found in a country town.But this was only the beginning. Sometimes by barter, occasionally by purchase, George expanded his equipment. What he couldn’t swap or buy he invented and built himself, until now he can take a tree out of his own wood lot, saw it into lumber in his mill, dry the lumber in the kiln he built, and make it into furniture in his own shop — all within a radius of two hundred yards and a timespan of three weeks.Of all this, and of the life he and Connie and their four children have made for themselves, George Woodbury writes with contagious humor. His gay and unconventional outlook is suggested by some of his advertising copy: “These are the only milking stools in southern New Hampshire,” he says, “that are individually rump-fitted by a graduate anatomist.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Goffe’s Mill. To get started finding John Goffe’s Mill, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 245

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Release: 1948

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Description: Ten years ago George Woodbury was an archaeologist in Harvard’s Peabody Museum; today he is owner, manager, and entire labor force of a water-power saw and gristmill originally built by his great, great, great, great grandfather two centuries ago. John Goffe’s Mill is the story of his adventure in turning an obsolete rural industry into a design for happy living.When George and Connie returned to the ancestral acres, the dam was in ruins, the mill itself had tumbled in, the old house was badly in need of repairs, and soon thereafter the hurricane of 1938 wrought havoc in the little wood lot. Assisted by Louis Lavigne, a retired woodchopper, he cleaned up the wood lot and sawed enough lumber to rebuild the mill. Little by little the rest of the work was done, most of it by George himself, some of it with the help of local artisans as obsolete as the mill itself: Desidere la Tulippe, master mason of prodigious girth; Hank Gookin, alcoholic barn framer; Kitty, monosyllabic metalsmith; and other original characters of a sort only to be found in a country town.But this was only the beginning. Sometimes by barter, occasionally by purchase, George expanded his equipment. What he couldn’t swap or buy he invented and built himself, until now he can take a tree out of his own wood lot, saw it into lumber in his mill, dry the lumber in the kiln he built, and make it into furniture in his own shop — all within a radius of two hundred yards and a timespan of three weeks.Of all this, and of the life he and Connie and their four children have made for themselves, George Woodbury writes with contagious humor. His gay and unconventional outlook is suggested by some of his advertising copy: “These are the only milking stools in southern New Hampshire,” he says, “that are individually rump-fitted by a graduate anatomist.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Goffe’s Mill. To get started finding John Goffe’s Mill, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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