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Enterprise Irregulars
January 24, 2021
In 1790, at about the inception of the US Constitution, the American lumber industry was centered in Maine, then part of Massachusetts. Overharvesting timber to meet the demands of a growing domestic market as well as a robust international market for ship masts, planking and other naval stores eventually started the industry’s westward migration, first to the Mid-west and ultimately to the Pacific Northwest.
A lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Packing up and moving west was a staple story, an origin myth, of America long before Horace Greeley advised Civil War veterans in 1865 to “Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.” If you were a lumber producer in those days, moving simply meant packing up the movable components of your sawmill and following the setting sun. Lumberjacks and other workers followed.
‘We needed a bigger home with closed-off spaces’
Like many house-hunters, Fiona and Tony Walsh were prompted by the lockdowns of 2020 to consider swapping suburban living for a larger home in the countryside.
Fiona, a trained scientist who moved to Ireland from the UK in 1999 to work in the pharmaceutical industry, has been working from home during the pandemic at the family’s three-bed terraced house in the Cork suburb of Rochestown. She and Tony have two daughters, aged five and eight.
“The downstairs is all very open plan and I have a desk in the living area and there’s lots of noise,” says Fiona. “We needed a bigger home with closed-off spaces.”
I wish all my readers a happy Christmas season as far as Covid 19 restrictions allow.
In the midst of so much controversy, fear and menace of the pandemic, I thought it best to divert readers’ attention with a huge success story of an excellent film produced from a superb book – Vikram Seth’s 1993, 1,349 paged ‘A Suitable Boy’ about post-Independence India in the 1950s, set in Calcutta and Lucknow, dealing with inter-religious issues and love between Muslims and Hindus. It is one of the longest English-language novels in print and worldwide reviews placed it as one of the best modern literary classics. The title is because the mother of the chief female protagonist is adamantly and determinedly in search of a suitable boy as husband for her university graduated daughter. I admit I am still to read it, but I so enjoyed Seth’s 1999 ‘An Equal Music’ which he autographed for me at a Galle Lit Festival. It was absorbingly interesting though much about western classical mu
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