Paleo flint sources, New York State

[sonofgaia]

lake champlain has normanskill on several portions of its banks. north-western and northern new york and through new england along the canadian border has onandaga. the catskill -hudson region has  normanskill. lower new york on the ct border has eopus. normanskill is the best knapping material there is. supposed to be 99 percent pure fint. always harvest rock yourself and spall it at the location . the problem with the stuff is it is loaded with fractures. ive broken it open to find it completely made up of 1/8th " tiny blocks, totally useless. there is also rhyolite in new hampshire. but its very difficult to obtain as most areas are protected sites. also crystal quarts is available in parts of new england mainly southern portions. most of this needs to be mined from exposed vanes in cliff walls. it was a highly prized knapping material in new england hence the crystal room at the mohegan sun casino.

[stickbender]

     Ok, forget the " Ayeups ", and just stare at non locals as they go by......That way they will think, could've been born here, but moved away......Yeah, I know they don't use that in Mass.  My Girlfriend is from Fall River.  They haven't any " R's " up there.  So when they get one they haven't got a clue where to put it.  So when my Girlfriend says something that I can't understand, I either put an " R " in ,or take one out.  Yeah, sometimes she just doesn't talk so too pretty good, like me.  I try to teach her, but she just can't get the hang of it.  " No Dear, it's pronounced Dawg! D A W G , Dawg."  And there is no " R " in saw.  And it is a " Pawn shop, not Porn shop. "  It's like a whole different language up theya.  Crap, now I'm doin it!  Oh well at any rate, good hunting, and I'm  sure we are all awaiting the next installment in the " Adventures of ......" The Outsider ", and mystery of the Soapstone, and the monster that guards it, and the town that knows how to keep a secret......

                                                                                       Wayne

[sonofgaia]

wanted to add one more note. you dont need knappable stone to put an animal down. long before flint was traded the people were still eating. bone points and ground basalt points are very effective. a pointed stick will also do the trick

[Dane]

Sonofgaia, thanks for the great info. Doesn't mean, however, that I am less confused about stone sources in New England.

Okay, Wayne, I will continue the saga of the missing quarry as soon as I go back. If you find me stuffed in the little museum as a new display, don't say I didn't warn you the place is strange. Lovecraft would have loved Grafton.

Dane

PS New Englanders do have a different way of talking, wicked thick accents, ayup, ayup. 

[Hillbilly]

Cthulhu fhtagn!!! R'lyeh!! Iä, Shub-Niggurath! The black goat of the woods with a thousand young!!! 

[Dane]

Ayee, yes, the sunken city will rise, Hail C'thulu. Azathoth! Hastur! Dagon! Great Nyarlathotep! So, you are initiated into the secrets of the Necronomicon too?

I plan to take a trip to Miskatonic University soon, to study the book myself...

...but wait....no...no...IT is coming....closer...no....the smell of sulfer...the angels are WRONG...somehow...it is coming across the room...as I type...nooooo. I am doomed...no...closer...I should just get up and leave the room, but I...can't...though it is slow moving....where is my coffee...noooooo.

[Hillbilly]

I've spent a few hours with ol' Abdul Alhazred over the years.  I thought Wilbur Whateley still had that Miskatonic copy checked out........

[Dane]

Naw, if you recall, Wilbur was killed trying to steal the copy from the library. He melted into green, slimy ichor. Then, of course, the Duwich Horror escaped.

By the way, I used the eldrich sign and escaped at the last second earlier today.

Lovecraft has some connections to my area, actually! He spend some time in Brattleboro, and maybe even Greenfield.

Dane

[Hillbilly]

Just watch out for Pickman's models, Brown Jenkin, and luminescent meteorites. You're in an unhealthy neck of the woods. Not to mention some of those Mi-go might come down from Vermont at any time, and if the sea levels keep rising - well, the Deep Ones may decide that Innsmouth isn't far enough inland.

[Dane]

"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia. The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands. But the true epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteem most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous."

Thanks for the warning. This just about describes that part of Vermont.

I believe I did hear a buzzing the other night...pesky Mi-go again near my house. They hate bows and arrows, though.

As for Brown Jenkins....I tell my wife if she gets pissed at her coworkers, don't Brown Jenkins them...way too bloody knawing through their chest. She teachers Gothic literature, and I am happy to say she added Lovecraft to her classes because I turned her on to his work.

Dane

[Hillbilly]

I heard somewhere that there wa supposed to be a movie version of At the Mountains of Madness coming out in a year or so-hopefully it'll be a good'un.

[Dane]

Cool, that is one of my favorite stories by Lovecraft, and I am looking forward to it. I can't think of any films based on his stories that really get it right. Fun movies, but not Lovecraft.

Dane