The season of Lent is marked by fasting and acts of penitence for past sins, with worshippers marking a cross on their foreheads with woodash to symbolise human mortality.
On May 24, 1989, the day before George Nakashima's 84th birthday, the second-largest collection of his prized wood furniture was reduced to a pile of ash in a house fire.
Lambert said businesses can still transport wood to mills in New York, which has emerald ash borer quarantines in counties that border Berkshire County.