Sound Wormy Memoir of Andrew Gennett Lumberman 1st Edition by Andrew Gennett, Nicole Hayler, John Alger ISBN 0820337870 9780820337876

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ISBN 10: 0820337870

ISBN 13: 9780820337876 

Author: Andrew Gennett, Nicole Hayler, John Alger 

Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of timber along the Chattooga River watershed, which traverses parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. By the time he wrote his memoir almost forty years later, Gennett had outwitted and outworked countless competitors in the southern mountains to make his mark as one of the region’s most seasoned, innovative, and successful lumbermen.

His recollections of a rough-and-ready outdoors life are filled with details of logging, from the first “cruise” of a timber stand to the moment when the last board lies “on sticks” in the mill yard. He tells how massive poplars, oaks, and other hardwoods had to be felled and trimmed by hand, dragged down mountain slopes by draft animals, floated downstream or carried by rail to the mill, and then sawn, graded, and stacked for drying. He tells of buying timber rights in a land market filled with “sharp” operators, where titles and surveys were often contested and kinship and custom were on an equal footing with the law.

Gennett saw more than potential “boardfeet” when he looked at a tree. He recalls, for instance, his efforts to convince the U.S. Forest Service to purchase undisturbed areas of wilderness at a time when its mandate was to condemn and buy up farmed-out and clear-cut land. One such sale initiated by Gennett would become the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness in North Carolina.

Filled with logging lore and portraits of the southern mountains and their people, Sound Wormy adds an absorbing new chapter to the region’s natural and environmental history.

Table of contents:

1. My Birth and Childhood

2. Gennett Family History

3. Lebanon Law School

4. Entry into the Lumber Business

5. First Run of Logs, February 2, 1903

6. New Camps on the Chattooga River

7. Depression, 1904

8. Visions of Timber Deals, 1905

9. Episodes in Madison, South Carolina

10. Romance of Rabun County

11. Recollections of Clayton, Georgia

12. Sawmilling on Tessentee Creek, 1907-1908

13. Removal to Franklin, North Carolina

14. The Weeks Act of 1911 and Land Sales to the Government

15. Eminent Domain

16. Marriage to Julia Bell Tate

17. Appalachian Logging Congress

18. Interesting Experiences While Cruising Timber

19. Running Band Mills in Tennessee, 1919-1933

20. Perversity of Inanimate Objects and Peril of Lumber Industry

21. Failure of the Revenge Theory

22. Inevitability of Lawsuits in the Lumber Industry

23. Struggle and Stress in the Lumber Industry

24. The Necessity of Luck

25. Periods of Economic Panic

26. Resumption of Timber Purchases for Speculation

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