http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/main.php http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0121.jpg.html 405 The Pennsylvania Wilds and the Endless Mountains. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0123.jpg.html 409 Lovely and peaceful now. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/800px_Susquehanna_Log_Boom_1898.jpg.html 412 The source of millionaires was found in this log boom! http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/ExplorePAHistory_a0b2a0_a_349.jpg.html 415 Mixed forests covered these hills. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/ExplorePAHistory_a0b2a5_a_349.jpg.html 417 Hemlock bark peeling http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/ExplorePAHistory_a0b2a6_a_349.jpg.html 419 Peeled logs were left to dry to lighten them before skidding. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/ExplorePAHistory_a0b2a8_a_349.jpg.html 421 Log landing! http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/ExplorePAHistory_a0b2a2_a_349.jpg.html 423 Automation came to the forest. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/ExplorePAHistory_a0b2a9_a_349.jpg.html 425 Laquin in 1880 http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/laquinsmoke.jpg.html 427 Laquin at full power. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0122.jpg.html 429 256,000 acres of State Forest lie at our door. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0094.jpg.html 432 The trees and wildlife have returned and all are well fed; deer, bear, turkey--and most of all my soul. The same spot a few weeks latter on November 2, 2007. Thanks to men like Joseph Rothrock, Jacob Nolde, Maurice Goddard and Giff http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0170.jpg.html 435 We were just all out for a walk in the forest on a lovely fall afternoon!<br /> I think this qualifies as chicken soup for the soul ( http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0091.jpg.html 438 On the edge of the forest--the cottage. Looking much better since sons Eric and Matthew pressure washed the entire outside. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1396.jpg.html 441 It is beginning to look as though someone cares. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1398.jpg.html 444 A couple of good "operators" and a pressure washer work wonders! http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1400.jpg.html 447 In the future is a full front porch, log siding and a green metal roof. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1397.jpg.html 450 Tools of the trade ready to go back home. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1401.jpg.html 453 A couple of Labor Day weekend recycling projects. The fire ring; a former rock garden. The benches; a pine tree that had to com http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1399.jpg.html 456 Having been raised on a dirt road I love returning to one. With only five places beyond us and a dead end---an interstate it is http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_1402.jpg.html 459 Taken the last day of summer. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0013.jpg.html 462 Those are Carol's working snowshoes--but they can do double duty. The pair on the dinning area wall are retired. http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0007.jpg.html 465 A few of the traps after dyeing. The big one on the floor is a #4 double long spring, on the side of the basket a #1 1/2 coil s http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0008.jpg.html 468 The white "fish" is a gigging (spearing) decoy from Canada used through the ice, it is "jigged" using the ha http://www.davidcgrubb.com/gallery/v/Cottage/IMG_0009.jpg.html 471