TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kephart,George S.
TI  - Campfires rekindled: a forester recalls life in the Maine woods of the twenties 
SN  - 0960049673
AV  - GV191.42.M2 K46
U1  - 974.1B 
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Marion, Mass.
PB  - Channing Books
KW  - Kephart, George S.
KW  - Outdoor life
KW  - Maine
KW  - History
KW  - Foresters
KW  - Biography
KW  - Lumbering
KW  - Social life and customs
N2  - in Campfire Rekindled, George Kephart describes with clarity and humor the many facets of life in backcountry Maine as experienced by him as a young forester at a time when tree harvesting called for hard, back-breaking labor from stump to mill.  We see the rugged individuals who peopled those woods; the painstaking work involved in surveying and estimating yields of timberland; the miseries of bugs, of heat and of cold; the harsh primitive living conditions of pulpwood camps; the danger and drudgery of a pulpwood drive; the hazards of canoeing with a stiff-legged, 200 pound ex-linesman, the questionable delights of lunching on sandwiches that froze still in winter and, partially thawed over a campfire, became a sort of baked-Alaska". Around it all, Mr. Kephart paints a sensitve picture of the beauties of nature and the sights and sounds of the changing seasons
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