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Photo of Lumberjacks
The lumberjacks were talked into the photo.
It is in grayscale of course, this being 1911.
Colored photographs were not dreamed of yet.
Seventeen lumberjacks were rounded up for the photo.
When the photo was developed two extra men appeared
Who are these guys? The younger ones asked.
The new guys did not recognize them either.
They were standing next to you, Tom, someone said.
Tom did not remember seeing them.
Finally the photograph made it to the eyes of Donald.
He had been lumberjacking the longest.
Pete Johnson and Willy McCormick, he said.
Pete was killed in an accident in Oh six.
I think Willy was murdered in Oh eight.
No one looked at the photo the same after that.
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Caren Krutsinger
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