Also known as a widows watch. Women used to go up there to wait for their husband’s or sons to come back from battle. Some kept waiting.
I think I heard of the Deerfield massacre. Thanks for the link. Beautiful slate roof. We used to hsve lots of them but they are not maintained like in Vermint or Mass.
This whole area was one of the worst places to be during both the Revolution and the French and Indian Wars. Lots of massacres occurred, the worst being over in Cherry Valley, destroyed during the Revolution by Joseph Brant, a western educated Mohawk warrior with some serious skill at hit and run attacks, and his Tony allies dressed up as natives.
I still can’t manage a good picture of Miss Pistachio. She looks pretty epic. Ko smoke I bet. Hee buds keep getting larger. Here’s a couple lousy pictures.
Thank you for the invite @PioneerValleyOG! I’d love to take you up on that offer someday in the near future. My wife wants to visit her sister over on that side of the country anyways. I could take a quick detour by myself since I don’t think she loves history as much as I do. I found an old stone tool in a house I rented back in Texas. I took it to an expert and was told that it’s an old stone axe head that was used to make canoes most likely. I’ll find it and take a picture. I’ve kept it over 25 years now.
Cool thread. I grew TRSC Tirah outdoors two years ago in SE Massachusetts, USA. Ended up with 8 females, 4 of which hit 15’ and the baby was over 10’.
All organic grow using cow and worm poop plus my own aged piss for nitrogen enhancement. They were hungry and did like additional CalMag as well.
Pretty good mold resistance too. Found very few caterpillars and ended up using a very weak peroxide solution to control what rot there was paid better dividends than B.t.
Very hardy plants that went through several wind events over 50 mph with top winds around 70. One was super late to flower and so I didn’t chop her until November 18th, after she had gone through 2 or 3 nights below 30 degrees that didn’t kill her.
Thanks! The weather trade off is our annual fall monsoon of rain 3 days a week, two more days of fog and maybe a tropical storm or two thrown in…at exactly the wrong time. These plants dealt pretty well with it though -
And they did produce pretty flowers, had some purpling on a couple and a pink one as well. The flowers on most of them had a spiral, airy structure. I don’t like it as weed although some friends do - but it makes really good hash with calming narcotic, pain-killing effects -
If you want some real history, I could take you down to what we call Indian Meadows. This was a yearly gathering spot for native Americans next to the CT. River. Here they would fish and trade before moving on.
The spot goes back further, where Paleolithic tools have been found. Evidently, early man would use the high cliffs to spot mammoth migration, which would often pass by these mountains. I have hunted and fished the area since I was a boy… many an arrowhead and tool have been found. And still can be…
Yes I live 5 mins from Turners Falls, site of another Native brutal massacre. Too terrible to go into, and makes me ashamed they named the town after Captain Turner.
Many a slate roof still exists here, and those that have them won’t take them down. They seem to last forever.
I read that entire link you sent. Man, crazy how they just came and took all those people. And how many just stayed with their abductors after they had the chance to come home.
Here is the stone tool I found.
@LandraceWarden…I can’t wait to grow a tree like that one😁 I’ll have to await legalization for that. @p59teitel was this an older Tirah collection from rsc? Looks like the Regional Sativa, Ilaqai Nasal. Were there any short plants or just trees?
During the Revolutionary War, 80% of the local population of this area and the Mohawk Valley was killed or displaced. Schoharie Valley was known as the Breadbasket of the Revolution. George Washington said his army would have dissolved at Valley Forge if it were not for the food provided to his troops from the Valley. 80,000 bushels of wheat was the number I recall. Small saplings( 10 or 12 feet perhaps)would be cut down and loaves of bread were baked around the tree, so that 2 men could carry two leaves on their shoulders, using the trees as poles. The bread was likely carried up the Valley and then down thru Kington and another Valley or two, to Valley forge.
Timothy Murphy lived a short ways from my place. He was credited with shooting and killing Simon Frasier, Britain’s best field commander, at the Battle of Saratoga, from about 400 yards distance. He had a custom 2 barreled rifle made in Pennsylvania and was a member of an elite group of men known as Morgan’s Rifles. . These guys were ridge runners/ backwoodsmen and were all skilled hunters and trackers, and were each equipped with a rifle, very rare in the day of smooth bores, which were effective to only 80 yards.
Without Simon Frasier, the British failed in their flanking maneuver, and we were Ultimately victorious in the battle, capturing an entire British Field army in their most devastating loss of the war and changing its course. So much history here. The Valley was invaded 3 different times in the war. I actually own a 6 pound cannonball found near the Old Stone Fort in Schoharie, most likely fired at the fort in 1780. There was a spring in the valley that I went to as a kid, and there was a massive pile of broken arrowheads…the rejects I suppose. I grabbed a small bag of them and still have them. Nothing as impressive as that axe head you found. That’s a beauty! My cousins son was gifted a massive Stone tool collection by an old Native family friend. He found most of it in the 1930’s. There are some incredible tools, like the one you found.
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Just trees. All went over 10 feet, including one that was topped probably by a deer during veg - it still hit 12 feet with several big colas.
The seeds were from the 2019 harvest. I assume they are from Afridi lands, as the seed collector has friends on IG who are Afridis.
Angus at TRSC did pass on that per information from locals there may also be some Mazar influence dating back 40 or 50 years from a specific individual who introduced that strain, as a possible contributing factor to their massive size.
Here is my last 7 gram hunk of first sift heel hash from done in Feb 2022 (I have a few oz. of second sift in the freezer). I do heel hash because my dry sift skills are mediocre. And also because even if I could make it I can’t really smoke the gooey taffy-like stuff they do, as I am smoking single hits out of a small water pipe and not a huge chillum getting passed around a room of ten folks consuming massive quantities -
I have khoresan Iran and am going to flower/ open pollenate and I’m looking for some long flower I would love a veitnam or or a Thia or a PNG something intense I have a Malawi gold but I’m not sure if it’s legit smh I have a couple like that I’m also after some semi autos like a leb or the rif
