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Life in the Lumber Camps |
Four retired lumberjacks give first person accounts of life in the woods. They describe what the dawn-to-dusk routine was like including the food, bunkhouses, log drives, and other fascinating elements of lumbering life.
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Michigan Lumberjacks |
The first woodsmen in Michigan were called "shanty boys". This program looks at the jobs they did, the tools they used, the food they ate, and the bunkhouses in which they lived. This is a fascinating look into the everyday lives of these men in our state's history.
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Michigan's Lumbering Days |
recreates the life and times in the woodlands, from the 1850’s to the 1920’s. You will see hundreds of archival photos and the big trees of Hartwick Pines set the stage to take you back in time and show you how the “Shanty boys” lived.
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