Heartwood | Author's Notes
PJ Piccirillo has contributed a series of sequential short articles that provide valuable insight into the historical background of Heartwood.
1. The Allegheny Plateau: A Succession of Big Trees And Transients
2.Lumber, Et Cetera
Carbon Products And Powdered Metals Come To Stay In Northern PA
3.Trees, Landscapes And Legends - But No Literature
4. Allegheny Lumbering: A Bittersweet
Saga
The Early Days
5.The Water Transportation Era
Of Allegheny Logging
“Always something, always hauled away with the waters…” Igidius
Rakestraw, in Heartwood
6.Williamsport: Lumber Capital Of The World
7. The Railroad Logging Era: The Focal Setting Of Heartwood
“…always hauled away with the waters, even
if on the railroads that follow them.” Igidius Rakestraw in Heartwood
8.A Desert Where Had Been Trees
9.Lessons Learned, And Learned Still
