Paperback classics often have the best page to price ratio, and therefore are an excellent purchase for someone who's going to be away from a bookstore for weeks or months at a time.
hmm bares no resemblance to the woods camps photos of my grandfather and father standing amongst a bunch of men in winter in northern NY or NH, still using massive pulling horses to skid out pulp wood to the landings where pre WWII trucks hauled them off to the pulp and paper mills. Mostly French Canadian farm boys who made great money for 3 months in winter. Not sure if any of them could read...by the early 60's that was all gone, the equipment so efficient and robust they could just go into the woods and cut daily and deliver fresh stock to the mills wood yards on a nearly hourly basis, 24/7.
This evokes a feeling of nostalgia for a time and place none of us have ever known.
Throughout reading the article, I pictured a sawmill I regularly used to drive past years ago
Paperback classics often have the best page to price ratio, and therefore are an excellent purchase for someone who's going to be away from a bookstore for weeks or months at a time.
hmm bares no resemblance to the woods camps photos of my grandfather and father standing amongst a bunch of men in winter in northern NY or NH, still using massive pulling horses to skid out pulp wood to the landings where pre WWII trucks hauled them off to the pulp and paper mills. Mostly French Canadian farm boys who made great money for 3 months in winter. Not sure if any of them could read...by the early 60's that was all gone, the equipment so efficient and robust they could just go into the woods and cut daily and deliver fresh stock to the mills wood yards on a nearly hourly basis, 24/7.