“For the antiquarian shipbuilders who are painstakingly restoring the world’s only surviving wooden whale ship here, an essential ingredient can be very hard to find: lumber that’s big enough and strong enough for a massive 19th- century seafaring vessel, and cheap enough for a restoration project’s budget. Restorers of the Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport had relied on fallen live and white oak trees from the Deep South, where hurricanes like Hugo and Katrina had uprooted many. But supplies were running low last June and officials wondered where they would find more. Then construction crews working in Charlestown made an accidental and historic discovery.”
Reminds me of the oak beam story from New College in Oxford, UK.
