The Annual Meeting for the Robinson Sawmill will be held on Saturday, September 9 at the Maple Corner Community Club beginning at noon. The meeting had been scheduled in July but was postponed due to the flooding.

After a potluck lunch the meeting will start with reports on past and upcoming activity associated with the mill and the election of a new member of the Board of Trustees.

There will then be a presentation by Stephen Long, author of the book "Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane that Transformed New England" concerning the hurricane of 1938. A journalist and co-founder of Northern Woodlands magazine, Long focuses on the devastation to the region's forests and the daunting challenge facing New Englanders still in the throes of the Great Depression. His presentation is richly illustrated with archival photos of storm damage and the unprecedented recovery operation. Long is the former editor and publisher of Northern Woodlands magazine and has been a Charles Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest. Originally trained as a journalist and writer, he developed expertise in forestry, silviculture, conservation policy, and the natural history of New England after moving to Vermont in 1989. He founded the magazine Vermont Woodlands in 1994, which quickly grew and became Northern Woodlands, covering New York and New England. Long served as both an editor and contributor for seventeen years, before leaving to pursue his own research and writing. He is also the author of "More Than a Woodlot: Getting the Most from Your Family Forest." He lives in Corinth, VT.

The meeting is open to the public and is free.

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