![]() ![]() Trees For Tomorrow had five of us spend three days in the north country, where we would study trees and woods and other nature things. Then one day a science project took me back into the country. ![]() It didn’t take me long to acclimate to a bigger set of environs, and I was happy. Though I’ve lived in Iowa all my life, I spent two years in Appleton, Wisconsin, which though it’s not a terribly big place, was a sprawling city to me then. Most of my Northwoods research came from high school memories, of Wisconsin, not Minnesota. Deciding they would be on a break since most of the book takes place during a blizzard, I learned as little as possible and got out with as much of my romanticism intact as I could. ![]() And they do not, I am sad to report, call out “Timber.” I watched a few reality show episodes of Ax Men, but honestly I stopped because it was clear the reality of logging was seriously going to burn my stereotyped joy. There isn’t exactly a wealth of information lying around the Internet about lumberjacks, except I can tell you the first thing I did learn is that they do call themselves loggers, not lumberjacks. That turned out to be harder than I thought. How can you not? Of course I knew next to nothing about them, so I had to go do research. When I knew I was writing a story set in the Minnesota Northwoods, I knew right away I had to write about lumberjacks. ![]()
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