Scott finished an Engelman Spruce burl bowl(top) and a chestnut bread bowl. The wood had been a mystery up until this weekend. We had cut up and hauled off a huge stump, everyone had a different idea about what it was, it turns out it is american chestnut which is basically extinct as a result of chestnut blight, a bacteria brought into the U.S. in 1904. Visit the american chestnut society for more info about the tree. This one was huge and must have been brought to moab by early settlers. It was across the street from HMK middle school at the house of the schools namesake, Helen M. Knight. Kind of crazy to find an extinct eastern nut tree in moab? The wood is beautiful.
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