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
