When I was in High School I worked on a White Pine Blister Rust crew summers for the NH Department of Recourses and Development. You can google what that was. We always sough out new hardwood growth in the spring suitable for walking sticks for the summer work.
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Daniel Webster once said ""Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men."
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