>the young engineer placed a bit too much dynamite under a tree stump


A local legend of reality here is "The Dynamite Church" in Oliver, BC.
There once was a little 1890's gold mining town, Fairview, up on the side of
a mountain.   When the gold petered out after WW1, the valley below was
realized as a good place for orcharding, and everyone moved there and set up
a new town beside the river.    Many buildings were moved down the several
miles on skids, pulled by horses.   The big beautiful hotel was abandoned
and burned.   However, a popular Baptist church was too big to move and too
pretty to burn, so an old miner came up with a relocation solution.   He set
off a stick of dynamite inside the church, just the right amount.  It popped
loose all the nails, and the building, including the bell tower, was easily
dismantled and moved board by board, all numbered, to the new town where it
was reassembled to look exactly as it had originally.   The church still
stands, and today many old timers love to tell the dynamite tale of their
youth.

cp in bc
where restoration was once a way of life

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