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Re: The Sustainability of the Puritan way
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Leland Torrence <[log in to unmask]>
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adaptive re-use is from the department of repetitive redundancy division <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:24:03 -0500
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Ruth,
Do you heat exclusively with wood?  What kind of stove do you have?
Best,
Leland

Leland R. S. Torrence
Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild
17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT  06525
Office:  203-397-8505
Fax:  203-389-7516
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www.LelandTorrenceEnterprises.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: adaptive re-use is from the department of repetitive redundancy
division [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth
Barton
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [BP] The Sustainability of the Puritan way

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:
"İeven a modest house required at least twelve tons of woodİ..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



Leland R. S. Torrence

Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild

17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT  06525

Office:  203-397-8505

Fax:  203-389-7516

Mobile:  203-981-4004

E-mail:  [log in to unmask]

www.LelandTorrenceEnterprises.com




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