Dean of the Woods

Dean Marks was a product of the Great Depression. He began doing a man's job and earning a man's wages at the age of fourteen and pursued a timber faller's career with little interruption until his death at age sixty-five. His rare combination of intelligence resourcefulness and sense of humor make him a fascinating study in human nature. He was at once opinionated and tolerant hard-nosed and soft-hearted highly self-confident and self-effacing. These anecdotes and vignettes illustrate and highlight valuable lessons learned by an admiring and appreciative son while depicting a vanishing profession and one of the most memorable professors of that way of life.