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When Loggers Become Bloggers – Forks, Washington

THE town of Forks, Wash., on the rain-drenched western side of the Olympic Peninsula, is a four-hour trip by road and ferry from Seattle. Billing itself as the “Logging Capital of the World,” it was a big-eating, hard-drinking town — one of many in the state that kept Seattle supplied with the timber on which the city’s early wealth was based.

By JONATHAN RABAN

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/opinion/05raban.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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