Travis Dame of North Berwick takes nails out of reclaimed boards at Longleaf Lumber in Berwick. Reclaimed wood from Maine is getting top dollar as customers seek out quality and beauty. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
“It’s really become quite important that it has a provenance,” observed Kris Cornish, executive director of the Maine Wood Products Association. “They like the fact that they’re having their coffee on a piece of wood from a mill in New England that generated wool for uniforms at some point, and now it’s being re-used and not just trashed.”
At Counter Culture’s barista training center in New York City’s trendy SoHo, the maple flooring came from an 1840s-era textile mill in Biddeford. ©Alan Tansey Photo