Learning Logging with Tory Porter
There is a 2016 photo of a young Tory Porter sitting at the business end of a 110-year-old Lombard steam engine that once hauled logs out of the deep woods and down to the river. Sitting next to a grinning Herb Crosby, past president of Maine Forest and Logging Museum at Leonard’s Mills, Porter grips the primitive steering wheel in both hands and peers intently at the dirt road he’s navigating.
“Yeah, I remember that photo,” Porter says with a laugh when the scene is described to him. “I think back to the days when I rode my bike all over those grounds. I was around these older guys who were working to preserve logging history, completely oblivious to the fact that it would someday engulf my life.”
Published in Northern Woodlands on December 21, 2023
