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Author: Sarah Shea Smith
Published Date: 01 Apr 2011
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Book Format: Hardback::66 pages
ISBN10: 0982823622
Country United Kingdom

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They Sawed Up a Storm : The Women's Sawmill at Turkey Pond, New Hampshire, 1942

Forest damage was extensive, with nearly a third of New England's forests destroyed the storm. In total, the hurricane blew down an estimated 2.6 billion board-feet of timber. Smith's presentation highlights a group of New Hampshire women who, in 1942, operated one of two sawmills on the shores of Turkey Pond, Concord. The remarkable story of the Women's Sawmill that was operated at Turkey Pond, Concord, NH in 1942. DURHAM Few know Concord was the site of the nation s first sawmill run women, something Sarah Smith, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension forestry specialist is working to change. She tells the story through her new book, They Sawed Up a Storm, which also explores the hurricane of 1938, the cause behind the mill s establishment. As a result, Turkey Pond was used to store almost 12 million board feet of Menu Near You New Book Chronicles N.H.'s Women's Sawmill of WWII (UNH Today, (courtesy of the National Archives at Boston), November 10, 1942 to replace men in sawing up 7,000,000 feet of 1938 hurricane timber.". NH report: Efforts to help drug-exposed babies must improve Library will jointly sponsor a talk Sarah Shea Smith, author of They Sawed Up A Storm about the women's sawmill at Turkey Pond in Concord, N.H. In 1942. Y, NH. VOLUME 37, NUMBER 14. FEBRUARY 14, 2013. THE WEEKL. Y NEWS will be They Sawed Up A. Storm Women's Sawmill at. Turkey. Pond. New. Hampshire 1942 operated a sawmill on the shores of Turkey Turkey Pond Mill, New Hampshire The mill, one of two at the pond, was constructed to saw timber blown down the great hurricane of 1938. Contracted with hundreds of private sawmills to set up at the ponds and fields. Mills completed their government contract with the last timbers being sawed Nov. DURHAM, N.H. - In 1942, Turkey Pond, on the outskirts of Concord, was "They Sawed Up a Storm," a book that chronicles the women's I became acquainted with the women's mill at Turkey Pond through a conversation with John Willey, Laura's son, John, who operated a sawmill in Andover, New Hampshire, at the time showed me his mother's scrapbook - a tattered collection of snapshots and newspaper clippings depicting the women at work between 1942 and 1943. $25; children under 12 $15. Tables may be reserved for 10. Benefits women and children's organizations in the North Shore. 781-639-6265.Salem: The Florence Luscomb Women's Center of Salem State College will host three benefit performances of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" as part of the V-Day College Campaign 2004. In Nov. 10, 1942, Laura Willey, a boss lumberjack overseeing the crew at the sawmill at Turkey Pond in Concord, N.H., handles a saw blade at the mill operated entirely women They Sawed up a Storm: Discovering the Turkey Pond Sawmill D uring World War II, stereotypes about what constituted women s work were suspended as women March 31: They Sawed Up a Storm: The Women's Sawmill at Turkey Pond, New Hampshire, 1942. April 7: The Story of the Old Man of the Mountain. Has affected the state. To register or for more information contact Christopher MacLeod at 856-0604 or.Related Posts. Northwest, that he had women in Diboll who could do those jobs just as easily. Operations was a sawmill in New Hampshire, the Turkey Pond mill. That mill opened in 1942 as a war emergency to process salvaged timber from Sawed Up a Storm" The Northern Logger and Timber Processor 48 (2000): 8-10. 61-62. 19. The Paperback of the They Sawed up a Storm: The Women's Sawmill at Turkey Pond, New Hampshire 1942 Sarah Shea Smith at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping. Holiday Shipping Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help They Sawed up a Storm: The Women's Sawmill at Turkey Pond, New Hampshire 1942. Sarah Shea Smith. Paperback. USD 15 One of the many interesting stories to follow the 1938 hurricane was that of a women's lumber camp in 1942/43 on Turkey Pond, just outside Concord, New Hampshire. Check out They Sawed Up a Storm Sarah Shea Smith to learn more. And here are a few images from the New Portable saw mill. The female mill at Turkey Pond is going along nicely. Concord s sawmill girls carried out New Hampshire history an expert on the sawmill and author of They Sawed up a Storm, which Connecting Projects WILD, WET and Learning Tree in New Hampshire Protecting the Focus on Forests 3. They Sawed Up a Storm. 5. A River Runs Free 6 cord Daily Monitor on October 26, 1942, the women of Turkey Pond to life. Two Book Depicts the Work of Women in a Concord Sawmill during WW II. forester both in New Hampshire and Vermont, he has certainly enhanced the public image of "They Sawed Up a Storm is about an extraordinary group of women who operated a sawmill during World In 1942, copying other women's sawmill at Turkey Pond into context the devastating hurricane. Turkey Pond in Concord became the largest single storage pond in New England, receiving nearly 12 million board feet of pine logs. To boost sawmill capacity, NETSA contracted with private operators to set up portable mills near the storage ponds and saw and stack lumber. The first mill to locate at Turkey Pond was that of H. S. Durant, who moved They Sawed up a Storm on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The 1938 hurricane, a devastated forest, wartime, labor shortageNew Hampshire women to the rescue (the sawmill at Turkey Pond). 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