Today we drove up to Potter County at the top of Pennsylvania to see the Lumber Museum. This whole part of the state is in the Lumber Heritage Area; in the late 1800s much of this portion of the state was completely denuded of trees. A conservation movement supported by the Pennsylvania state government pushed for better forest management and massive tree plantings.
Gifford Pinchot, who later served as a Republican governor in Pennsylvania, was one of the prime movers in forest preservation. Then, in the Thirties, the CCC had camps of young men all over the state working on public projects and reforestation.
We are spending the night in the historic Penn Wells hotel in Wellsboro. This town also has an old movie theater where we just saw the latest Mission Impossible film. Tomorrow we drive home by way of the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. There are parts of this state that are just lovely.
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