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One of the challenges of having an aging brain is comparable to owning an iPhone with 31 of 32GBs of memory already filled, the current state of my iPhone 8. The result of this phenomena is a vivid memory of something, but not much recollection of the back story, and sometimes it takes a lot longer to get to the details than one would hope.
For example, I vividly remember taking a trip to Washington, D.C., for a meeting, but I donât remember who I went there with or exactly why. Because I was the executive director of Laurel Arts in Somerset at the time, Iâm thinking the meeting might have had something to do with the National Endowment for the Arts or maybe the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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WASHINGTON - A stack of historic mahogany wood sitting in storage for more than a hundred years finally has a purpose: Repairing the damage caused to the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
The 3,000-pound stack of 78 boards has been tucked in a dark, remote storage room at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory s Madison, Wisconsin facility since 1919. The stack of lumber is incalculably valuable, writes the FPL. Today, mahogany has protected international conservation status and the high quality, clear old-growth mahogany originally used in the Capitol building is no longer available.
The FPL believes the wood was harvested sometime in the early 20th century and likely used for wood research purposes during World War I. The wood s geographic origin is uncertain (most likely from the Phillippines, South America, or Africa), but it can be traced through New York before it arrived in Madison.