The Wild Rose Chance tavern:
is in the Nantucketers' mainland outpost of Fogarty's Cove;
is a log cabin with logs a hundred feet long and a yard thick;
has a big taproom with long trestle tables and benches and a fire in a "...long iron-backed field-stone hearth" (SM Stirling, Against The Tide Of Years, Chapter Four, p. 56);
serves breakfast, including hot wholewheat bread with melting butter, to twenty people or more.
Eating breakfast from a loaded plate, Alston reflects that weight is not a problem when a fifteen mile journey means half a day on a horse instead of fifteen minutes in a car.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
What impressed me was how the Nantucketers were able to use such massive and long logs made from primeval forest giants!
And I remember Dr. Coleman saying that, as a rule, the hard physical labor most Nanucketers had no choice but to accept made them, on average, ten pounds lighter than they were before the Event.
Sean
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