Sounds about right, that's about what we burn each winter.  It's very labor
(or cost) intensive to live in a cold climate.  Ruth




At 3:09 PM -0500 12/8/07, Leland Torrence wrote:
"Ševen a modest house required at least twelve tons of woodŠ..the average
seventeenth-century New England house consumed fifteen cords, or 1,920
cubic feet, of wood per year, meaning that a town of two hundred homes
depended on the deforestation of as many as seventy-five acres per year."

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick



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Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild

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