Press Release
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Local author Edna Curry‘s historical romance novel, Never Love a Logger, based on the 1886 Taylors Falls logjam has been released in both electronic and paperback formats from Whiskey Creek Press. See link above.
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Never Love a Logger by Edna Curry, Whiskey Creek Press, October – 2011
A historical romance set against the background of the big log jam pictured below from the 1886 Taylors Falls, MN, log jam, the largest log jam Ever. It depicts life in the logging days with lots of detail about the lives of people during that time.
What happens when a rough and ready logger who wants no responsibility and thinks he doesn’t deserve a second chance at love falls for an attractive prim and proper lady with a ready made family?
The largest logjam ever occurred in1886 at Taylors Falls, MN. It garnered worldwide attention and made the history books as far away as Sweden. Reporters arrived by train from all over.
Will and Carrie think there is no chance for them to have a family of their own. Each has reasons to avoid love and entanglements. Will is burned out on responsibility after helping his widowed mother raise his siblings and his wife and infant son died. Carrie thinks no man will want her and her brother. She promised her father she’d raise her brother and while she’s attracted to Will, duty comes first.
Then the greatest logjam in the world throws them together for six weeks. Will is staying at the boarding house where she works while he and many others try to break up the logjam. Can their love last beyond the summer logjam?
There are many pictures of the log jam on the MN Historical Society's website and on the WI Historical Society's website as well.
The article Edna wrote for the log jam’s 100th anniversary that was published in June, 1986, is still available on Amazon.com and other places on the web. See her website, www.ednacurry.com for more information.
