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<p>[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 2350104, member: 13874"][USER=15601]@tmc[/USER] I totally agree. Have seen similar here in a FL Seminole small museum, part of a state park. <i>Turpentine hacks</i> were used to cut holes in pine trees to harvest the sap to be made into turpentine. This sap gathering was a livelihood among Southerners, mostly rural African-Americans and Seminole natives. </p><p><br /></p><p>When turpentine was no longer in much demand from the South, the practice diminished, now probably completely gone, at least around here. Pottery shards, from old clay flower pots, used in this practice are still found in the forests all over North and Central Florida.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 2350104, member: 13874"][USER=15601]@tmc[/USER] I totally agree. Have seen similar here in a FL Seminole small museum, part of a state park. [I]Turpentine hacks[/I] were used to cut holes in pine trees to harvest the sap to be made into turpentine. This sap gathering was a livelihood among Southerners, mostly rural African-Americans and Seminole natives. When turpentine was no longer in much demand from the South, the practice diminished, now probably completely gone, at least around here. Pottery shards, from old clay flower pots, used in this practice are still found in the forests all over North and Central Florida.[/QUOTE]
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