Comments on: Item #718

By: chris

chris — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:11:22 +0000

Caterina Fake did a lot of that for flickr , while MetaFilter exists entirely as a community.

By: Vlada

Vlada — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:07:44 +0000

Looks like the people from Eastern Europe are working in similar conditions and with similar equipments in the present time, as workers from the Digester House did in 1945… It’s just sad.

By: Roger W Dignard

Roger W Dignard — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:24:55 +0000

Stumbled upon this photo. I am quite certain that the man on the right is my uncle; and the name is spelled correctly.

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Scriblio » Small Steps — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:44:00 +0000

[…] The suggestion here isn’t to diminish the role of books in our libraries but to lower the costs of the systems we use to manage those books so that libraries can afford to deliver more of their services and value online, a proposition that becomes easier to understand once we see our users exploring community history, discussing sustainability, and explaining what a digester is. […]

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By: Pete Brockett

Pete Brockett — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:48:42 +0000

Holy Cow! No gloves, safety glasses, or Hard-Hats!

By: Larry Twitchell

Larry Twitchell — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:32:56 +0000

The comments here are accurate! My Dad, Sherman Twitchell, worked in the Digester House for many years and did his stint on The Wrenches. When I saw this photo the name Roger Dignard flashed into my mind for the man on the right. I remember him as one of my Dad’s good friends when I was a youngster. The man on the left might be Edgar Melanson but I’m not at all sure of that.

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Social Tagging and Cataloging « colombianflowers — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:30:39 +0000

[…] Item # 718 is an image of two men working on some equipment. The subject headings that were initially allocated are “Tightening, Securing lid on digester, Wrenches, Digester, and Burgess Mill.” In early March someone posted a comment giving us more information on what the digester does. Later in the month someone else identified one of the men in the photograph. […]

By: Ronald A. Couture

Ronald A. Couture — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:44:54 +0000

This picture was taken at the Burgess first Digester House . We knew it as the Old Chip Loft
back in our days. There was still one digester used for Black Liquor storage and that was #19. The Chip Loft was right above the Digesters, there was a gate that the operator opened and the chips would flow by gravity into the Digester. Same theory applied with the Blow Valves which would open directly into what we knew as the Blow Pits.

By: Fred Smith

Fred Smith — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:21:48 +0000

This photograph was taken at the Burgess Mill Digester House in January 1945. The man on the right is Roger Dignard (spelling of name may be incorrect).

By: Carl E Belanger

Carl E Belanger — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:46:47 +0000

They are tightening the cover on a digester. The digester had just been filled with wood chips. The chips are cooked, then blown out through the bottom. The guys on the wrenches would unbolt the cover, swing it open then drop a fill chute down so that chips could be poured into the digester.
The job was typically done by two men. This job was refered to as “working on the wrenches”.