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In 1849, John Newton “Black John” Gatch, a former riverboat captain, purchased about 100 acres of farm land in southwest Ohio near what is today Milford, OH.

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The lumber for these four projects was sawed from a bur oak well over a century old that grew on private property in Cincinnati, OH. Read the rest of this entry »

A large walnut tree was blown over in the summer of 2008 on the property of the Busken family of Indian Hill, OH. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1999 Norm Abram visited Cincinnati, at the request of Sam, to film a New Yankee Workshop segment on reclaiming urban trees. The Cincinnati Park Service arranged to cut down a street tree for the filming. The felled oak tree was then sawn into lumber by the WoodMizer demonstration team. The WoodMizer guys even put it in their big ol’ pickup and hauled it to my garage in one trip. It took Sam and me three trips in his Ford Ranger to get the wood to his house. Read the rest of this entry »

Sam sent Norm Abram some walnut for the French Table New Yankee Workshop project. Read the rest of this entry »