Hi Kerr

1. DRAFT: Please thank your wife and your friend for their kind response to the draft!

2. MARTHA: Martha Stewart’s place is in the Seal Harbor section of Mount Desert Island. From what I’ve been told by local historians and from what I’ve researched – there were no tide mills in her part of MDI.

3. FRIENDS/CONTACTS: I’m going to copy and forward some of your emails to me to several of my friends and contacts in the tide mill world.

Have already done that for early ones with TED HAZEN – and you’ve gotten some good responses Don’t lose track of him – he may come in handy in the future.

We’ve already teamed up on SAM MANNING, who, I am sure, will become a key player for you in whatever your publication plans may be.

- Some of the others I plan to add are the following; you may expect some correspondence from them as a result.

EARL TAYLOR – co-founder of TIDE MILL INSTITUTE and president of the Dorchester Massachusetts Historical Society in the Boston area.

JOHN GOFF – co-founder of TIDE MILL INSTITUTE, former editor of TIDE MILL TIMES, an architectural historian with a deep sensitivity and commitment to tide mill heritage

DON WOODS – TIDE MILL INSTITUTE steering committee, a registered engineer with strong archaeological skills, involved with a number of historic preservation projects

TODD GRISET - TIDE MILL INSTITUTE steering committee, an environmental lawyer with commitment to sustainable energy and a great interest in contemporary tidal power

-- The article about your mill may well engender additional queries/comments from people on the mailing list – over 200 of them internationally.

SHOULD I ADD YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO THE ARTICLE OR SIMPLY FIELD AND FORWARD THOSE QUERIES THAT MIGHT ARRIVE????

--- Here are the names of some of the people you’ve been sharing with --- John Boucher; Bob Potts, Brigit Moonen; Elizabeth Trout; Mandy Bosworth Jones;Richard Bosworth. I will add them to the mailing list for the newsletter.

COULD YOU TELL ME A BIT ABOUT THEIR INTEREST IN TIDE MILLS? THANKS!

---- I don’t include David Plunkett, whom I already know. He is is the tide mill guru of the UK, having documented most of those on record, and is also very involved with the Eling mill in Hampshire. He spoke at our confrence several years ago.

BEST WISHES!

Bud

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Answer

Thanks Bud.

1. Yes, add my email address to the article and please make sure that David Plunkett receives a copy. He has been a great help.

2. This is a long story: Mandy Bosworth Jones and Richard Bosworth are husband and wife. They lived in Montreal for a few years as part of Richard’s work and have since returned to their home in West Sussex, England. Both are now retired. Darlene, my wife, and I met them shortly after they arrived in Montreal and we quickly became good friends. On September past Darlene and I flew to Scotland to visit Mandy and Richard at a condominium they have close to a small and interesting town on the west coast called Oban. After a few days visiting sites very new to Darlene and I, all four of us made our way to West Sussex for an adventure in mills.

Mandy knew that I was researching the Apple River site and prior to our visit to the UK she contacted Bob Potts, a member of the board of directors of the High Salvington Windmill and a volunteer at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum.

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Bob Potts spent several hours on two different days giving us a private tour and lots of explanations. He had taken part in the rebuilding of the High Salvington Windmill. Bob even learned to use the adze. The accomplishments of High Salvington and the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum are, at least to my mind, mindboggling. And England has many more of these accomplished museums.

After the tour Bob suggested that I contact (1) Brigit Moonen, a miller I believe at a restored mill in Holland and (2) Ron Cookson at The Mills Archive Trust. Brigit responded with a suggestion that I contact a group called TIMS and Elizabeth Trout responded from The Mills Archive.

Elizabeth Trout contacted David Plunkett and John Boucher (given as a saw mill expert and researcher in one of Elizabeth Trout’s emails). And you come in about this time. Also, I know from one of David Plunkett’s emails that he knows John Boucher.

Both Brigit Moonen and Elizabeth Trout want to be kept in the loop and both are recording the information in the emails. Bob, Mandy and Richard also want to be in the loop. They are enjoying the flow of ideas.

If England ever needs good will ambassadors they need only contact Mandy, Richard and Bob Potts and the others mentioned above.

So that is the story and it all started with Mandy, Richard and Bob on the other side of what of David Plunkett called the ‘Great Pond’.

I hope this helps and let me know if I missed answering a question.

Kerr