Articles from the June 10, 2008 edition

Updated Jun 10, 2008

We’ve all seen movies depicting living in a log cabin. And the majority of these Hollywood cabins are usually meticulously well kept. Few living today have experienced life in a log cabin. Now, I’m not talking about those spectacular log houses costing hundreds of thousands, but those small twelve by twelves so ubiquitous to our young nation in centuries past. I was one of the few fortunate (I thought so) youngsters to have a relative who lived in one. And no, no tone of the Hollywood cabins, but one constructed with an axe...