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Old 08-11-2008, 10:56 PM   #11
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It rained for three days prior to the 38' Hurricane - made the trees pop out of the ground like they had been greased. Crafty - ever read the book "A Wind To Shake The World?"
Yes I have, Joe, but only parts of it. I have a copy on my bookshelf right now and it's been on my re-read list for a while.

The guy who owns the Book and Tackle shop in WH is a '38 expert - damn, can't remember his name, gotta be my early onset oldtimer's disease kicking in

Many the old extremely rare trees that used to line Bellevue Avenue in Newport that were imported by the millionaires as a kind of one-upsmanship contest were felled like matchsticks, took months to clear the Avenue again by men using axes and 2 man bucksaws. Must have been amazing -

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