One more (or maybe a sub-item for #9) is lighter wood (or fatwood). The heart of old pine stumps won’t rot away because they’re suffused with a highly flammable resin. Cut a piece off w/ an axe, feather it with a knife, and you can start a fire with almost anything.

There’s a great book about this phenomenon called “The Great Good Place” by Ray Oldenburg. He uses the concept of “The Third Place” (where the first=home and the second=work) as the gathering place, and illustrates with lots of real-world examples how a lot of the city planning in the late 20th century basically…