Christmas in a Logging Camp

In this special episode that both celebrates the one year anniversay of the North Country History with Rob Burg podcast and celbrates the Christmas Holiday season, I share 19th Century writer John W. Fitzmaurice recounting of the celebration of Christmas in a Northern Michigan Logging Camp in 1883. Read from his book "The Shanty Boy.": Or, Life in a Lumber Camp, which recounts his experiences of traveling through the Northwoods and visiting logging camps in the 1880s while working as a hospital agent and drummer. He published his book, using a bit of dramatic liscense, in 1889 and is a good depiction of what the life in the camps was like for the shanty boys. Source MaterialFitzmaurice, John W. "The Shanty Boy: Or Life in a Lumber Camp."  Cheboygan, Michigan: The Democrat Steam Print Co. 1889. To leave a comment, send me a text here.Support the show