The lumberjack twirls the log and the log the lumberjack. Log floating puts bread on the table and the logging camp provides momentary security. People help each other for nothing in the backwoods. This land brings about a resolute attitude to life - the lumberjack’s stouthearted humour stems from these lichen tracts. This land of hard work and good stories hones the skills needed for life.
Rovaniemi provided a place for the night – and naturally, other amusements – so lumberjacks were often considered as “a necessary evil and a dubious bunch of people”. Log floating on the Kemijoki river was done away with in the early 1990s – but thousands of tales live on…
Histoires: Ajatus Oy
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