Big Lincoln Logs

 

Big Lincoln Logs

Noel Laflin

12-2-22

When we planned to build a real log cabin 50 years ago, we had no idea of exactly how to go about it, as the four of us were just teenagers, and city boys at that.  We got our hands on a Foxfire book that had design plans and suggestions for how to notch the logs, etc.  It proved helpful, as did my old Lincoln Log (American Logs) set from childhood.

The only difference was, our logs at camp weighed a lot more and weren’t pre-notched. There was no convenient can in which to store them either.

But it all worked out in the end.

Pictured here in the summer of 1973 – one year after we began - is Chris Bergh, one of the four original pioneers. Being the smallest, he had the privilege of sleeping in the loft, but he never complained. It was, after all, bigger than the one you could assemble in the Lincoln Log set.