> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rudy Christian
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:14 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Morev preservation secrets
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>
> Few people realize that walking into a 150 or more year old barn
> West of New
> England is actually walking into a virgin woodlot. No wonder it makes you
> want to take your hat off!

This is the reason I find the science of dendrochronological-dating of
buildings to be so fascinating.  To be able to match up the growth rings
like a spectrographic chemical pattern to a known database of growth
patterns based upon the climatic conditions, and know when the tree was cut
to create the timber (did I get that terminology right?), is very cool.  You
can almost imagine the weather in 1690... "dry year"  ...  1702  "wet year."

Time travel does exist.
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