Image via WikipediaIn January I wrote about a 212 year old tree in Yarmouth Maine that was cut down due to having contracted a fungus..rather than letting it fall on a house, or rot to waste, it was decided by someone that it would be cut down.
Last month I was in Portland Architectural Salvage, which is a really funky store in Portland, ME that has 3 enormous floors of any type of interior or exterior fixture or furniture--tons of old scrap and antiques and just relics from earlier years. I highly recommend it.
Among the list of really interesting pieces is an old industrial table that was reconditioned by a local artist, and then fitted with a giant ring of Herbie around it--the aforementioned 212 yr old tree. If I remember correctly, it was on sale for about $5,000--can't get much more unique that that.
It was not the coolest looking table I'd ever seen; but to know that the wood of the table you would be sitting at may have been planted around the time of the Revolutionary war, and saw the Red Sox win all 7 World Series, is kind of neat.
Which reminds me of another cool wood-related story. A company up in Northern Maine called The Deadhead Lumber Company uses a unique boat equipped with highly specialized sonar to recover logs that went to the bottom of the lake during that period of time where logging companies sent their logs down rivers. The logs are recovered without divers, air-dried and then finished off in a kiln; mostly used for flooring, but it is pretty neat flooring. The wood is preserved at the bottom of Moosehead Lake from light and are in wonderful shape; plus they come from old growth forest that just isn't around anymore, so you get giant logs with unique and fabulous curly grains. The site is worth checking out!
Maine Company Uses High-Technology To Salvage Sunken Treasure
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