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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL by CARLY SIMPSON
Dan McDonough, a ninetime world champion log roller and the owner of Jack Pine Lumberjack Shows in Mackinaw City, carries on the traditions of Michigan’s mighty loggers.
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photos by Dave Weidner
udience members divided into rival logging camps—the Mill Creek camp versus the Mackinaw City camp—cheer wildly as lumberjacks scale cedar poles, race across floating logs and send wood chips flying. In the center of it all is Dan McDonough, hyping up the crowd and sharing the history of Michigan’s logging industry.
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