No one knows who Joe was. No one even knows if he lived in the Shelburne, New Hampshire area or came “from away”, the ubiquitous term New Englanders apply to anyone who wasn’t born and raised in their part of the world. What we do know is that by 1877 (and possibly as early as 1872), a 1670’ mountain was named after him.  As with so many visitors to the White Mountains before and since, Joe was compelled to see what the lush woodland landscape, wide, clear rivers and patchwork of farms looked like from above. Read more…