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KRISTEN DE GRAAUW
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: * Dr.
de Graauw collected 48 samples from The
Barracks in Lewisburg, West Virginia and was
able to infer an initial construction date of
1799.
*When de Graauw was dating the Kee cabin
in Marlinton, West Virginia, she discovered an
old bullet lodged in one of its logs.
* De Graauw's goal, as she drills, is to have
each core come out in one complete piece.
* Dr. Kristen de Graauw is the owner
of Historic Timbers, a firm dedicated to
discovering and preserving the history of old
log buildings and the forests from which they
came.
* The tin and wood siding on the outside of
the James Wellard barn helped preserve the
history of the old logs tucked beneath.
* Kristen de Graauw's headlamp illuminates
the smoke and sawdust created by her drill as
it bites deeper into an oak log.
bike with friends, but I wasn't particularly
outdoorsy, " she says. That changed
when she took a college course on proxy
records. Proxy records are the stories of
ancient life found in things like ice cores
and fossilized pollens. De Graauw was
enthralled. " I thought it was so cool that
you can reconstruct the past using environmental
proxies. "
She especially loved what she could
tease out when studying tree rings, so
she spent much of her time in her master's
program drilling holes in old trees
as she studied periodic insect events.
Then, at a Forest Ecology workshop near
Blacksburg, Virginia, de Graauw and her
classmates took core-samples from the
logs of an old barn to figure out when it
was built, and she was hooked.
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" I loved it. It felt like a puzzle. " So,
she completed her doctorate by drilling
even more holes into log buildings.
That's when she realized that old buildings
could tell more than their own stories.
They could also tell the stories of
long-gone historical forests in the area.
" I developed a robust record of forest
composition and growth in eastern West
Virginia that pre-dates European influence
as I completed my dissertation, "
she says.
De Graauw's current project is with
John Adamson and the Shenandoah
County Historical Society in Virginia.
They are working to create a database of
the barns in the county. Adamson believes
that barns are the most important
architecture in an agricultural area. What
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