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42 nshoremag.com October 2014 photographs by fawn deviney materials Burly Boards Rowley's Righteous Woods is prized for its expansive selection of lumber from around the world. By Alexandra Pecci walk into righteous woods in Row- ley and you'll immediately encounter two things: the heady scents of exotic, aromatic woods like Spanish cedar and African pa- dauk and the outgoing, talkative Steve King, who will greet you with a fist bump and an enthusiastic "Hey! What's happening?" Righteous Woods is the hardwoods division of Yankee Pine Lumber Corpora- tion, which was founded in 1981 and has been in its current Route 1 location on the Newburyport Turnpike in Rowley since 1984. "Other lumber yards don't have exotic woods to any extent," says Steve's father, Bob King, who founded Yankee Pine and is its president. "We have really exotic stuff from all over the world." Indeed, at any given time inside Righteous Woods, you could find 50 or so different varieties of hardwoods, many of them rare and exotic, from all corners of the globe. The large boards reach toward the high ceiling in long, tall rows, in a wide array of colors and shades, looking like bands of a wooden rainbow. Visitors might find woods like pink ivory from South Africa, bright yellow Brazilian satinwood, plum-hued purpleheart from Central America, red South American bloodwood, or striped zebrawood from West Africa. Steve, who runs the company's hard- woods division, says people who visit Righteous Woods often ask whether the woods are painted, perhaps thinking that their beautiful colors and patterns must not come from nature. Business ne Tactile Timber Find wood from all over the world in Rowley.