tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post114143542560261377..comments2024-03-28T05:37:00.942-04:00Comments on By Neddie Jingo!: One Side of Meat 12 Lbs.Neddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-18635130510265636472007-08-07T00:55:00.000-04:002007-08-07T00:55:00.000-04:00my goodness! Exciting to come across this. I am a ...my goodness! Exciting to come across this. I am a descendant of John Kalb of Loudoun County and of William Virts (also spelled Vertz and Werts) Did you ever find out which Virts family owned your house? <BR/>sppfun@hotmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141845953902329662006-03-08T14:25:00.000-05:002006-03-08T14:25:00.000-05:00Last Vienna Farmhttp://www.potomacvegetablefarms.c...Last Vienna Farm<BR/><BR/>http://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141750639612940072006-03-07T11:57:00.000-05:002006-03-07T11:57:00.000-05:00Kevin:No, we didn't preserve every piece of chinki...Kevin:<BR/><BR/>No, we didn't preserve every piece of chinking and dross that came out of the walls. It's literally mostly just rocks. We examined it all carefully as it came out, because all manner of interesting stuff had been stuck in there -- Jim told of finding Colonial-era coins and buttons and whatnot in other houses he'd disassembled. Mice had made nests out of late-1800 farmers catalogs -- it was fun teasing those apart to find ads for girdles, cake-pans and buckboard wagons.<BR/><BR/>The house is to be donated to the Lovettsville Historical Society. The town is putting up a park in a disused lot, and the Historical Society would like part of the park to be a model 1700s Pennsylvania Dutch farm, something local schoolkids could visit on a History-class field trip. There's many a slip twixt cup and lip, o' course, in plans like these, but that's the intention now.<BR/><BR/>It'll be a pdasiyo on earth.Neddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141663143057517992006-03-06T11:39:00.000-05:002006-03-06T11:39:00.000-05:00Lovely post, Ned.Lovely post, Ned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141585667874268072006-03-05T14:07:00.000-05:002006-03-05T14:07:00.000-05:00Really love these posts when you do them, Ned.I wo...Really love these posts when you do them, Ned.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what your thoughts are on the Trust for Historic Preservation, which I've given money to. They do important work but it tends toward the large, "important" type of property or structure rather than the homely.<BR/><BR/>Yet in reading this and other posts it's clear these structures are just as deserving of care and preservation. I wonder if you have any thoughts on that.<BR/><BR/>My other question, more direct, is whether you keep all the pieces of "chink" (I assume so) and how they are reconstructed if the building is rebuilt? It would seem almost impossible to keep track of the exact spot where they were originally located within the structure. Is there a trained archeologist who is part of your team?<BR/><BR/>Very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.Kevin Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17490345765638949916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141508999578260242006-03-04T16:49:00.000-05:002006-03-04T16:49:00.000-05:00I'm shocked that a wooden house that old could sti...I'm shocked that a wooden house that old could still be standing. Where I live (Western Washington), a structure that old and, apparently, neglected would have turned to a tumble of mossy duff years ago.Mike Kretzlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03205575495336130211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141492797190801352006-03-04T12:19:00.000-05:002006-03-04T12:19:00.000-05:00what is nsckwcbs?what is nsckwcbs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141485938330772682006-03-04T10:25:00.000-05:002006-03-04T10:25:00.000-05:00You're cool, Jeddie.You're cool, Jeddie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141478709123308032006-03-04T08:25:00.000-05:002006-03-04T08:25:00.000-05:00You make me want to start on the MA in Public Hist...You make me want to start on the MA in Public History this fall, even though I'll be 50 this spring.<BR/><BR/>What we need more of is just such a reverence for our built patrimony, and a better way to think about "development."Uncle Rameauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235566816770765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141468486211661402006-03-04T05:34:00.000-05:002006-03-04T05:34:00.000-05:00Sounds like big fun. If you're ever in the greate...Sounds like big fun. If you're ever in the greater Philadelphia area, check out the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA. Thousands of 17th - 18th - 19th Century tools and other effluvia of early America. They even have some of Ben Franklin's original nsckwcbs in their collection...roxtarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578012483935100786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1141453254981271352006-03-04T01:20:00.000-05:002006-03-04T01:20:00.000-05:00That's awesome. Go Neddie!That's awesome. Go Neddie!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com