Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westermann's images are radically different. They are both limpid and mysterious, and this is largely the result of Westermann's loving attention to craft. He manipulates his repertory of boxes, laminations, dovetails, locks, hinges and clamps with unerring finesse. The effect-as in the absurd log-cabin toy tower that rises, with a metal swan flapping from its crenelations, inside the box called Battle of Little Jack's Creek, 1970-is to convince you of the utter reality, the solid presence, of a completely surreal world, pinned and glued at all its joints and present...
...fair, however, I don't imagine that any of the public servants who are wooing our votes come from log cabins or antipoverty housing any more...
...country girl actually raised in a log cabin in Elba, Ala. ("We used to go fishing for mud fish in the Pea River -that's what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang...
...hats. Then they stepped out the door into the frozen flats of Bethel, Alaska (pop. 2,500, predominantly Eskimo). "We can't believe you're here," said Nancy Hohman, principal of the Bethel elementary school. Shivering against the 5°-below-zero weather, looking at the log cabin that passed for an airport terminal, neither could the musicians...
There is hardly any sentimentality here, but much clear-eyed love and some surprising beauty. Among the most beautiful people in the book is a superb old lady of 85 named Aunt Arie, who lives alone in a log cabin with well water and the food she raises. One of Wigginton's editors writes, introducing a long conversation with Aunt Arie, "As we talked, she told me how she used to live, but without feeling sorry for herself and without saying how many miles she walked to school each...