Oxen Logging Demonstration & Parade
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 11 am
Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA 01060 |
Rain Date: Oxen Logging Demonstration & Parade moved to Wednesday, January 24th at 11 am
The forecast for Tuesday morning is for rain. Historic Northampton is rescheduling the oxen logging demonstration and parade to the following day.
The forecast for Tuesday morning is for rain. Historic Northampton is rescheduling the oxen logging demonstration and parade to the following day.
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For the first time in more than a century, a team of oxen will be hauling logs in downtown Northampton.
Forester and oxen driver Tom Jenkins of Blue Dog Forestry will bring his oxen "Rock" and "Star" to Historic Northampton for an outdoor demonstration on oxen logging. After the 45-minute presentation, Rock and Star will drag logs from Historic Northampton down Bridge Street to 33 Hawley Street. Everyone is invited to join the parade and follow the oxen down the street. "The oxen move pretty fast," said Jenkins, who is a descendant of the Clapp family, one of Northampton's early English settlers. "The 'parade' will probably take less than 15 minutes." Jenkins works as a private forester and has been logging with oxen for more than a decade.
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Blue Dog Forestry will demonstrate oxen logging
at Historic Northampton. Photograph courtesy of Hilltown Land Trust. |
Logs from two white pine trees removed in preparation of solar panels being installed at Historic Northampton.
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The logs that he will be dragging are from two white pine trees that were taken down last week at Historic Northampton. The trees, which were about 40 years old, were removed in preparation of solar panels being installed on the roof of the museum's Damon Education Center.
The program is free and has been made possible by Greenfield Savings Bank, Blue Dog Forestry, Northeast Solar, Woodstar Bakery, and the Northampton Community Arts Trust. For more information, please contact Laurie Sanders at 413-584-6011. |
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