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Town That Thrived on Logging Is Looking for a Second Growth

November 16, 2014 /

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The great forest just east of town beckoned to Dan Rice when he was a young man, as it had to his father and grandfather before him, both proud loggers in a time that now survives mostly in black-and-white photos and in the talk of old men. He and his brothers kept the family log-trucking business going, he said, hauling to mills now mostly automated, partly in obligation to the legacy.

His wife, Cindy, by contrast, fixed her gaze on consequences, and the pattern of poverty and desperation that was left behind as mill and timber jobs blinked out. He holds fast to things that echo from the community’s founding in the 1850s, when the first Rices arrived from Tennessee; she directs the Sweet Home Emergency Ministries food bank, a vivid marker of need going forward.

By KIRK JOHNSON

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