Starting when he was four years old, Russell Barnes wanted to be a logger. He didn’t grow up in a logging family, or even in a rural area, so he’s not sure where the desire came from. His parents took the family to Ludlow, Vermont, on vacation back when there was a sawmill in the town and, said Barnes, “I made my dad take me to the sawmill to watch them saw logs.”
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