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River Drivers

August 13, 2014 by WSKI Leave a Comment

When hard work, danger & hardship meant worthy skills, fearlessness, & great friendships. River Drivers moved the timber from forest to the sea & sawmills along the way! Just a few years back I brought my visiting mother to the River Drivers’ reunion day at the Dead River Historical Society in Stratton where I shot these interviews on the spur of the moment because I had the camera in the car & pulled it out to record the tales being told by these amazing men of a generation gone by.

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Filed Under: Events, Featured, News, People Tagged With: hard work, log drive, Maine High Peaks, maine history, Maine memories, Timber history

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