Oakum is a loosely twisted rope-like material made from oiled jute or hemp fibers. Traditionally manufactured in prisons or workhouses by disassembling old rope lengths and rubbing the strands with ...

Youth from the South Lake Tahoe area took on an ancient task recently at the Baldwin Museum on the Tallac Historic Site. They learned how to do chinking, the process of caulking between logs to keep ...

BOOM! I STOOD transfixed as it dawned on me that no molten lead remained in the pot. Instead, thousands of steaming dots of lead were strewn about over a fairly wide area of our shop. One of my jobs ...

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Raymond E. Oakum Sr., 87, of 4297 Christian Spring Road, Nazareth, formerly of Maplewood, N.J., and Frackville, Schuylkill County, died March 21 in his home. He was the husband of Grace E. (Williams) ...

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