Turpentine Blues: The Strange & Terrible Saga
Slash Pine Slashed For Turpentine (photo: North Carolina State University) Turpentine business ain't what it used to be. I grew up in the Piney Woods. I still live in the Piney Woods (or the "Pine Belt," as the public relationists and promoters have tagged the underbelly of Mississippi). But the Piney Woods ain't quite as piney as they used to be, unless you happen to think suburban development isn't a sappy mess or wind up in the Pine Grove Treatment Center in Hattiesburg. Among other things, they specialize in sex addiction , so you might want to check in for a few rounds of golf or some heavy metal music . At $37,000 for a month and a half, it's probably no more expensive than renting a condo at Hilton Head and paying greens fees. But that's not the point here. Or maybe it is. They cut down a bunch of trees to build the city where "Pine Grove" is. The Jefferson Starship built a city on rock and roll, but the city where rock and roll was bor