 1 This is the lead photo to old logging camp portion of this site. I wish I knew what I was holding in my hands, but whatever it was it was not pleasing to Joanne. I really like this picture of the four of us. |
 2 This is George Bergman sitting on the edger. |
 3 These two lumber jacks, whose identity is lost, were photographed in 1939. |
 4 A couple of thirsty loggers resting on a log pile. Mervyn is hard to notice in front of the fellow on the right. |
 5 Owen, Mervyn and Irene on log billet on the sawmill. |
 6 Owen and Irene snuggling on a log pile c.a. 1937. I don't know how they stacked these huge logs so high. |
 7 This is a photo of Joanne and Mervyn on a "dry pile" of 1" lumber. I remember climbing these piles and having a loose board pull out while trying to make my way up the side of a pile. |
 8 This is a "strongman" logger. Photo taken in March 1939. |
 9 This is an unknown hunter at the old camp from 1939. |
 10 This photo shows the '34 Chevy truck being readied to haul a load of railroad ties, probably to Orr MN. One fellow is putting on tire chains (or taking them off) and someone else is filling a gas can from a barrel. |
 11 Another photo of the preparations. |
 12 Irene and Pauline Hendrickson in the doorway of the cook shack. Later photos show the area cleaned up a bit. |
 13 Irene and Merv with unknown woman on a log on the carriage of the sawmill. That may be George on the good sized log in the background. It looks like they used horses for skidding. |
 14 Irene and baby daughter "Joanie" in front of cook house. |
 15 This is a picture of sawyer George Bergman that was taken in 1937, according to the original photograph. |
 16 The crank operator is Gary Lindsey, the fellow sitting on the track is Pat, The girl standing is "Joannie". Norman is partly visible behind Mervyn who is at the controls. It turns out that I operated this very same tractor pulling a spray rig while working for uncle Albert some 25 years later. |
 17 This is a photo of a Sorell boot model carved by cousin Galen Bergman and given to me on my 70th. birthday, June 25, 2005. Such fine detail! Even the bottom of the sole shows some wear in the tread. That is a quarter leaning against the boot. |
 18 In August 2013, about 75 years after the previous picture, I am sitting on another Allis Chalmers crawler tractor. Click here to see photos taken at the camp site revisited in June of 2002. |
