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Building a Covered Wagon in Southern Pines, NC

Note: Originally published January 25, 2006

Recently, I’ve been reorganizing the RiverEarth.com website. It’s twenty years old and has over 800 posts. Over time, links break, which means when you search for them, you get those annoying 404 errors. This is one of those articles whose link needed repair. Yeah, it’s a blast from the past.

At the time I wrote it, I was living in Southern Pines, preparing for what would become the Lost Sea Expedition. But like many… Continue reading →

From Scrap Pile to Covered Wagon: Week Two of the Build

Big progress on the wagon front these past days. As I’ve mentioning in recent weeks, there’s another mule wagon trip on mule Polly and my horizon. It cheers me to announce that I’m a cotton blanket and tarp away from a roof that’ll keep the whole thing dry.

Long Rider Bernie Harberts barn in eastern North Carolina where covered wagon is being built, chestnut tree shadow over scrap heap of salvaged building material.
Where it’s all taking place. Here’s the barn where I’m building my wagon. A chestnut tree throws a wintery shadow over the scrap heap where I’ve gotten quite a bit of building… Continue reading →