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New England Natives : A Celebration of People and Trees
New England Natives A Celebration of People and Trees Author:Sheila Connor Taking us back to the birth of New England's forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the Archaic Indians who crafted canoes from white birch and snowshoes from ash, to the colonists who built ships of oak and pine, to the industrialists who laid railroad tracks on chestnut timb... more »er, to the tanners who used hemlock bark to treat the leather required to shoe the Union army. Lavishly illustrated.« less