Wednesday, October 15, 2025

"Brookhaven" and the Pearl River Lumber Company


A reader of Brookhaven sent n email, asking if I modeled the McClure Lumber Company in the novel on the Pearl River Lumber Company. A great-grandfather had worked there, the reader said, and she wondered. 

That I had to research the Pearl River Lumber Company to respond to her should answer the question. Or, more briefly, no. 


To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.


Photograph: Operations at the Pearl River Lumber Company about 1900.


Some Wednesday Readings

 

From Whitefield to Kirk: Revivals That Saved Nations – John Carpenter at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

We’ve Been Reading Dracula Wrong – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.

 

Prime, a monastic hour – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.

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