Re: Excerpt: The Log Cabin: An Adventure - Chapt. 4

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:01:29 GMT, Gary S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:30:40 +0000, Peter Clinch
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Len McDougall, Outdoor Writer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> living the life of a 19th century homesteader - in fact, that was the
>>> point of this exercise.  I wasn't camping in the backyard, I was
>>> homesteading in a wilderness.  There was no place to put my food cache
>>> until the cabin was built, which is precisely why I took that heavy
>>> polyethylene drum.  
>>
>><could_not_resist>
>>Lucky for Len McDougall, Outdoor Writer, that heavy polyethylene drums 
>>were in widespread use amongst wilderness homesteaders in the 19th Century!
>></could_not_resist>
>>;-)
>>
>Hey, cut the guy some slack.

Why? Before you do, maybe you can elicit from him a good description
of the area he likes to refer to as *wilderness*. Might that have been
within an easy drive of Petosky?

An Old Yooper

>
>I'm sure his local cooper's shop was busy, and unable to provide a
>wooden barrel, as used by homesteaders of an earlier time. The poly
>drum is a modern equivalent.
>
>Homesteaders did have some technology of the time backing them up,
>especially being able to buy tools and supplies. If Len's project
>involved making all of those things from scratch, it would have taken
>far longer than 18 months.
>
>Happy trails,
>Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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>Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
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