March 2, 2016, SAWDUST IN HER HAIR: 1943. "Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a Department of Agriculture timber salvage saw mill. 18-year-old 'pit-woman' Norma Weber agrees with her sister that sawmill work is harder than working in a laundry, but isn't so tedious, and is easier on the nerves." John Collier, OWI.
October 3, 2013, PIT-WOMEN: 1943. "Ruth De Roche and Norma Webber, both 18." relaxing off duty, smoking cigarettes.
COMMENT: Norma Webber married and died Norma Seaver in 2010. She was raised in Concord and went to school there and lived a full life. She rode jet skis at age 80 and hiked Mount Major at 85.
COMMENT: The Hurricane of 1938 felled thousands of trees in New England. Timber salvage operations were kept busy for years cleaning up the mess and turning out lumber.
Of course, the war effort needed lots and lots of lumber.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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