Residents take pride in their timber piles, debate best techniques News is obsessed with the flashy questions: “Is God Dead?” “Who Killed Kennedy?” “What is a Kardashian?” Yet for years, a quieter ...

I, however, just wanted to get my firewood off the porch, where it was overly sheltered for anything but fully dried wood, ...

A neighbour took down a big pine in his backyard last week and rolled the chainsawed rounds out to the curb. He said, “Help yourself.” The rounds were thick-waisted, some of them as big as bass drums.

A stack of firewood is so much more than just a pile of logs. It’s a rustic manifestation of hard work completed, a symbol of coziness to come. Changing shape with the seasons, it embodies both the ...

Anyone who has spent even a handful of winters in Maine knows that stacking firewood to dry in the elements before woodstove season is no mere chore, but an existential statement. Author Lars Mytting ...

Gary Tallman sees beauty where others only see work. The hues and shading of rough-cut firewood are the paints of his artist’s palette. He creates detailed mosaics using the natural colors of pine, ...