The Mighty Lumberjack


Lumberjack Splash
The lumberjacking competition requires strength, dexterity, agility and a little luck. The logroll was a popular attraction at the fair as contestants strove to see which of them could stay out of the water longest.


Lumberjacks Rolling on a Log
To help the lumberjacking contestants rally to victory, songs of lumberjacking were sung. You can listen to part of a lumberjacking song and sing along with the lyrics:

As I sat down one evening
Twas in a small cafe
An eighty-year-old waitress
To me these words did say
"Oh I see you are a logger
And not just a common bum
Cause nobody but a logger
Stirs his coffee with his thumb."


Photos by Andrew Tucker
Sound by Jesma Reynolds