The Old Farmer's Almanac 2010: Western Edition [2010 ed.] 1571984941, 9781571984944

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Containing, besides the large number of Astronomical Calculations

and

the

Farmer's Calendar for every month in the year, a variety of

New, Useful,

& Entertaining Matter.

Established in 1 792 by

Robert B. Thomas

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To Nature's teachings. -William Cullen Bryant, American poet (1794-1878)

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funds and vote on a recipient charity, exist in

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Smaller, lighter saws and the

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thing have

made chain saw

carving increasingly popular

among both men and women. The origins of the craft are as old and grand as the timber that inspires

it.

"Chain saw

art

was

evolutionary," says Liz Boni,

of Ridgway, Pennsylvania,

whose husband and daughter practice the art. "If there was a logging camp, then there was someone doing carving." Although the identities of these early enthusiasts as well as their efforts

modern-day

have been

artists

lost,

— whether

they create cute but crudely cut tourist bears in a

"quick-carve"

performance or sculpt

intricate,

museum-quality pieces studio

in a

— are carving out names

for themselves.

Ray Murphy,

Ray Murphy, the "Wild Mountain Man," of Hancock, Maine,

the

"Wild

Mountain Man," of Hancock,

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stands behind his lobster and ice cream sculpture at

ton Beach,

New

Hampshire.

Hamp-

Maine,

is

generally acknowledged as an originator of the

contemporary

craft.

He

started

sawing

in the

1950s

(Murphy doesn't "carve"), using his father's chain saw to cut designs and messages on logs and fence posts. Since then, he has sawed over 50,000 pieces, including dime-size ladybugs, 7-foot-tall angels,

numbers on toothRay inspects one of

his

picks,

sawed

and his trade-

mark alphabet pen-

alphabet pencils.

cils.

summer, he puts on a 90-minute show

During the in

which he

demonstrates techniques he has invented as well as other feats.

Carver

Don

Colp, of Oakridge, Oregon,

is

credited with the idea of a narrow-tipped guide bar, introduced in the 1970s. Shorter carving bars,

some with

tips as

small as a dime, can

accommomore

date smaller carving chains and enable ever intricate cuts.

Canada's best-known chain saw carver

is

— and most modest—

probably Pete Ryan from

Hope, British Columbia. "To me, it's just a tool for removing wood," he says of the chain saw. His large-scale

(up to 13

feet), lifelike sculp-

and mining pioneers take hundreds of tures of wildlife

hours to create. Visitors to

^

Hope

can see 27 of Ryan's carvings on a self-guided walking tour in and

around town.

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Gardening wilderness, he admired the ever-

green shrub that Native Americans called laurel

spoonwood (aka mountain and calico bush), which

was used

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make spoons and

trowels. In 1751, he returned to

Sweden with 90

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mountain

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Kab

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(1730-91) was

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and opinionated. From

Garden

his indigo plantation

near Charleston, South Carolina, he carried on correspondence and plant exchanges with William Bartram, Carl Linnaeus, and John Ellis,

among

others.

When

Ellis got

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Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), of German descent, was an amateur botanist and

professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania.

He

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textbook on anatomy. Soon after the professor's death, American naturalist

Thomas

Nuttall

the pea family for

him

named

the genus of

woody twining

vines from

(the misspelling, Wisteria instead of Wistaria,

caused confusion for centuries).

Forsythia Scotsman William Forsyth (1737-1804) served as Royal Gardener at London's Kensington and

St.

James's Palaces and founded the

Royal Horticultural Society. He

built

the first rock garden in England, using

lava from Iceland and 40 tons of stone

from the Tower of London.

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and sand mixed with soapsuds and

Forsythia

urine.) Forsyth's plant honorar-

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awarded posthumously

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in

1804 by Danish botanist Martin Vahl.

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Gardening

Kerria in

1804, wealthy British naturalist and explorer

Sir

Joseph Banks sent Scottish-born botanist and

gardener William Kerr plant-hunting a

meager

salary.

Kerr succumbed

in

China on

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shaggy-headed, orange-

plants, including a

yellow shrub. Banks then sent Kerr to Ceylon to supervise a

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Swiss botanist Augustin

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Poinsettia Gardener and amateur botanist Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) was the first U.S. minister to Mexico. While there in 828, 1

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