Once Upon a Berlin Time
Hello fellow Berlinites. I have been holding back writing about this man for quite sometime, but since I wrote about the woodsmen of 1946, I felt that I could follow it up with a man who is considered a North Country legend when it comes to early logging. My research from other writers and material I have gathered over the years allows me to talk about the renowned woodsman called “Jigger “Johnson. Using an old ...
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