Pat Reynolds wrote:
> ...
> my personal gripes: bricks as ballast and reused ships timbers in
> houses.
Perhaps not ships, but definitely boats: Bill Trout has demonstrated that
batteaux descending the Shenandoah River in VA were intentionally dismantled
and used in the construction of houses in Harper's Ferry on the Potomac River.
Lots of owners had wondered what the peculiar holes were in the wood in their
houses. Bill investigated as a result of the emergence of folk legends about
several rivers in Virginia having similar themes.
Lyle