We are kicking off Season 5 of It Still Lives with an episode on logging in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Featuring interviews with Will Zoellner, Shirley Buchanan, Jake Waldroop, and Preach Parsons. Read more about logging in Foxfire 4.
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More information on the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.
A track laid through the woods to help haul logs out.
Loggers pose with their oxen.
Logs and loggers pose in front of a sawmill.
Bonus content from Jake Waldroop’s 1976 interview:
My grandpa Mace was a sawyer,he set up a sawmill and sawed logs for a living.My dad and uncle also were loggers.During their early days logging,they cut them with a crosscut saw and dragged them with horses to log yard,where they loaded the logs with a pevy and hauled them to the sawmill Later years my dad loaded logs with a loader and hauled them to the sawmill.I thank God I was raised by a loggers and a God fearing Christian man.