Daniel Alarcón
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2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
Daniel Alarcón’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I tried two or three more questions, and he had gone flat and polite, the way people go when they've decided they've already said more than they meant to, and I left.
i went to the historical society on a hunch because the road grade had a date to it in my head that turn-of-the-century logging era and small-town historical societies keep that kind of thing it was open barely one volunteer a woman in her seventies named she told me eleanor who'd lived in old forge her whole life
i told her i was researching the old logging roads on the property i'd inherited and she lit right up because nobody ever asks them anything and she was glad of the company and she pulled out maps for me real ones survey maps and a few hand-drawn camp maps from the logging companies that had worked the area
And there it was.
My property, the bench above the drainage, and running below it the old grade we'd walked, marked on the company map as a hall road.
And a little way down that road, maybe a mile from the cabin, a cluster of small squares labeled in faded ink.
A logging camp.
Bunkhouses.
A cook shanty.
A barn.
A smithy.
a whole little settlement that had existed for a few years and then been abandoned and swallowed when the timber ran out and the company moved on.
Eleanor traced it with her finger and told me what she knew, and most of it was ordinary history, wages and board feet, and the names of companies long folded.
But when I asked her about the camp itself, that specific camp, she got quiet in a way I was starting to recognize, and she told me the one thing I'd come to town without knowing I was looking for.
There'd been a winter, she said, somewhere around 1901 or 1902, when a storm came in hard and early and trapped a crew at that camp.
Not the whole crew, a section of men who'd been working a cut a good way out from the main camp, beyond the reach of the road once the snow came.
the camp used a bell she said a big bronze bell mounted at the cook shanty to call the men in at meals and at the end of the day and in bad weather you rang it and the men walked toward the sound in country like that in deep snow in failing light
The bell was how you found your way home.
The men out at the far cut were supposed to come in when they heard it.
That storm, she said.
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