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Bfe^Along another, joad stands a r' meri,” the remains of a stone-;~'-r,small ^septior^/ of * an ornate block house V e t stand. ^fie‘-V jnron fence',.nearly.hidden by a ^ steps .are cracked “and crum-|thick4grorthv<xf.. wild^lack-bling, the walls are only/pax^V ;
L'tially intact, the roof Is gone. 4 I used-? to.^ s?meone s front, ■ < Leares and debris litter what -
. . .	,,	„	'	which’'will floweT'only’'for the';
j-the town s sawmills which, 50■-* eyes of an'occasio.nal'hunter ^' i years ago, turned out solid ? ^0r ' Qsferman’* SmalT* privet £•*: pine^ boards used in.building?hedges are'yet struggling tovj ships and sustained .a popula^* survive^ among 'the hardier J^Q9 of nearly.;rJ'^and' more.<enduring^forest Skaf1 those days, Logtown hadv growQjS all around them.X '^'-'’ ' a sv^mmg^ool a * • X n: d- th^^ieep'-greens lnd ^ ^lleaUimovie house a n d a , ■ frowns. of the for^t are fre- ■
* pommissary that, sola.;every-'*
repression ana tne aepietion.orv*. „>1, « v„♦ u •	'	*	*" >
fiheplne forests' combined to - ^ranches so h e a v y with to startle a passerby
•fshut down the millsi Logto^^J^^uf	-	somehow	instead	serving
^dwindled ' and onlv EO^amiiies> J° the £rou-nf •* •	•	meaningful' symbol of
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grade—School, one grocery own, it seems undisturbed /•'storej two chuic&es, a Maso.n- ..'and unhindered by the occa- j * ic lodge, and a one-room post s'ona^ return visits of man: a ■<< a ;	carload of shouting fishermen ■
L, Today," only the cemetery , headed for the Pearl, a ■"remains intact, carefully ..motorcyclist^ roaring through .v*
.( tended and lovingly visited by < a'on2 t.he . seldom-traveled former residents. Its presence road, the-, inevitable family | In the midst of the silent, which drives through an d '-I
stops, not to admire the. i
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filling with vinip^an'd -will as a soon be' obscured altogethWp the as na'ture pursues its.steady; 4'
n	a T /4 4nnlr « C wa	nwiw*W 1 »IV V
^.traditions, the"sentiments and /Logtowh,' a large rectangular - the feelings of the townspeo-'- hole which once contained ^ yple. managed t'ov endure and / a butane' tank — bears an'*r | ^prevail.s.!	'	'eerie	resemblance	to	an	open'.'	S
In nearby Gljgegyjil®*— or _ ' grave.- Some prankster h a;j» * v ff.what used to be Gainesyille —erected at one ^nd of it ^ li M»iiitle’remains , to remind- a /crude cross formed of brokon i ^visitor that the’town was everl'*.boards and string, meant only *s
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