from the Vermont Historical Society, 
109 State Street, Montpelier, Ver- 
mont 05602. This society also pub- 
lishes Vermont History, a scholarly 
quarterly, and Vermont History News, 
an informal newsletter, for its mem- 
bers. A subscription to Vermont Life 
is available for $6.00 from Vermont 
Life, 61 Elm Street, Montpelier, Ver- 
mont 05602. Also available from them 
are Vermont for Every Season (Mont- 
pelier: Vermont Life Magazine, 1980), 
a collection of essays on specific times 
in Vermont, such as peak season (dur- 
ing the height of the fall foliage) and 
mud season; and Justice in the Moun- 
tains (Shelburne: New England Press, 
1980), D. Davis’s account of his career 
as a Vermont country lawyer, judge, 
and, finally, governor of the state. 
Dead-Tree Insects (p. 84) 
Intended as a basic exposition of 
ecology for the beginner, R.E. Rick- 
lef s textbook The Economy of Nature 
(Portland: Chiron Press, 1976) in- 
cludes chapters on community diver- 
sity and energy flow. Ricklefs earlier 
book, Ecology (Portland: Chiron 
Press, 1973), an 881-page study, is 
broader and more comprehensive. Part 
8, “Community Ecology” (pp. 589— 
780) interprets the patterns that occur 
at the community level in terms of 
ecological and evolutionary processes 
at the population level. More specific 
references on insect-deadwood ecol- 
ogy are H.E. Savely’s “Ecological Re- 
lations of Certain Animals in Dead 
Pine and Oak Logs” ( Ecological Mon- 
ographs, July 1939, pp. 322-85), and 
S.A. Graham’s “The Felled Tree 
Trunk as an Ecological Unit” ( Ecol- 
ogy , October 1925, pp. 397-411). 
These well-written, still relevant ar- 
ticles are easy to follow and available 
in most libraries. 
Rita Campon 
If you'd like a poster of these two gentlemen for your bar. arop us a line 
JACK DANIEL AND HIS NEPHEW, Lem 
Motlow, disagreed on most everything. 
Until it came to making whiskey. 
Mr. Jack (that’s him on the left) was a fancy 
dresser. So Lem refused to wear a tie! But they 
both insisted on mellowing their whiskey 
through huge vats of charcoal before aging. 
And we’re about the only 
distillery who still does it 
that way today. You see, Mr. 
Jack once said, "Every day 
we make it, we ll make it 
the best we can.’’ And n ei- 
ther Lem nor anybody else 
ever disagreed with that. 
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Tennessee Whiskey • 90 Proof • Distilled and Bottled by Jack Daniel Distillery 
Lem Motlow. Prop.. Inc., Route 1, Lynchburg (Pop. 361). Tennessee 37352 
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