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From the February 2010 Print Edition

The quarter-inch chain is wrapped around the spruce like a Saxon’s braiding, woven on a forearm. He throws the last length over logs hemmed in the trailer’s iron posts which now lean out under the weight and pitch of so much timber. With hands caked now in pitch and fragrant sawdust, he . . . . Continue Reading »