After New England was settled, much of the British ships were built with New England trees. It was the first great trade good of the Americas before tobacco and rice. (Cotton did not become king until the invention of the cotton gin. Furs were big for the French.)
So the log cabins and the ships were frequently built with American trees after the initial colonies.
It is said that when the European colonisers first came ashore a squirrel could start in Massachusetts and reach the Pacific coast jumping from tree to tree and not touch ground. It might have to detour into what is now northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Alberta before reaching Puget Sound, but it could make the trip.
Ratkin Premium Member over 1 year ago
Wooden you know it, the boy’s board with the history lesson.
Pet over 1 year ago
Histree
Botulism Bob over 1 year ago
There’s nothing like researching your family tree.
Lee26 Premium Member over 1 year ago
When does he get to the part that his ancestors died to make that book?
joegeethree over 1 year ago
“I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.”
BadCreaturesBecomeDems over 1 year ago
And now the tree lobby wants reparations…
DM2860 over 1 year ago
After New England was settled, much of the British ships were built with New England trees. It was the first great trade good of the Americas before tobacco and rice. (Cotton did not become king until the invention of the cotton gin. Furs were big for the French.)
So the log cabins and the ships were frequently built with American trees after the initial colonies.
geese28 over 1 year ago
Yep you’re quite committed
Doug K over 1 year ago
Some just kind of lumber along.
Frank Burns Eats Worms over 1 year ago
This must be elementree school.
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 1 year ago
I see the kid and his father, but where’s Ms. Tree? It’s a great unknown.
gammaguy over 1 year ago
When the sapling asked what part they might play in the nation’s history, the teacher was stumped.
Lablubber over 1 year ago
Some of our relatives are in Brooklyn.
T... over 1 year ago
And they left hundreds of thousands of our ancestors’ stumps in the ground…
b.john71 over 1 year ago
But Dad I’m board!
Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago
It is said that when the European colonisers first came ashore a squirrel could start in Massachusetts and reach the Pacific coast jumping from tree to tree and not touch ground. It might have to detour into what is now northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Alberta before reaching Puget Sound, but it could make the trip.
aerilim over 1 year ago
And don’t forget the pages of this book…
fishbulb239 over 1 year ago
Don’t forget that you’ll also serve as the inspiration for street names after you’re all chopped down to make room for endless, unchecked sprawl.
ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago
As for the other branch of the family. they’re just toothpicks.