Lost and Found Notes from a Cabin in the Woods

During my high school years there was a guy who would later become a good close friend. He had his own cabin in the woods that he'd built during the previous couple of years. And I'm not talking about a ramshackle shack with stolen corragated roofing. This was a full on log cabin with two stories, a built in wood stove, a great front porch area leading to a huge private pond that was shallow enough to get super warm in the summer.

Much of the early history of the cabin had to do with late night drunken stumbles up through the woods to this cabin where we could do literally anything we wanted to. Kind of cool for a high school kid to have that kind of place to get away too.

The cabin was up a ways from the road. The "driveway" usually became impassable at some point in the winter and I can recall one winter going up there to see Jeff's Suburban almost perfectly wedged between two trees as it had slid off the icy road. They had to bring in a construction crane to pull it out.

Another time, Jeff made the mistake of parking his sister's new truck on the pond. The ice wasn't quite hard enough or thick enough and the truck went through. Ooops.

Over the many years of living in northern New England I spent a fair amount of time out at the cabin and even came to spend the tail end of a summer and beginning of one winter there. No telephone, no running water, no electricity for a summer.

Anyway, all of this is to set up a question.

I have, in my possession, the journal that was kept at that cabin way back in very late 1987. The first entry is from Christmas Eve 1987 and goes until September 1991. Many of the entries are by random drunk people during parties and are occasionally accompanied by pictures (usually of stick figure women with HUGE boobs). The journal is sometimes laugh out loud funny.

I've been thinking about either posting sections here, in the chronological timeline, or creating yet another new blog dedicated to just the journal entries.

It wouldn't be too hard to scan the entire book and post actual pages along with the typed up posts for legibility since some of the entries are really just wild scrawling.

What makes more sense? Separate blog or post it here?

Oh wait, you'd like a little sample of the journal's contents to make sure that its worth the time and effort?


The cover has a few scrawls upon it, the best of which reads "White supremizy". The ironic comedy gold is everywhere in the journal and the funniest part is that I don't think much of it was meant like that.

[Update: There's yet another new blog in town, Stump Pond Journal has been kicked into life and will slowly develop as time and interest permits.]