The cabins' rough-sawn lumber logs with dovetail joints only appear rustic; polished interiors feature peaked roofs, glass ocean-view walls with sliding shutter doors, and marble-trimmed bathrooms.
Some of the lumber for the Milams' two-story cabin frame had been treated with C.C.A., which prevents decay and repels termites.
The homesteaders, he told me, unable to make a living, were long since gone, their cabins dismantled and the lumber carted off to be used elsewhere.
The first party "platform" was adopted at a Convention in 1840, during an election that also introduced more rough-hewn lumber in the form of log cabins.(Whigs paraded them around the country, on wheels).
But by the time the Bus became a EuroVan, everything else on the market had advanced well beyond the VW, both in terms of handling and real-world acceleration, and how easily a parent could reconfigure the cabin for carrying children or lumber, as the need arose.
Wohlleben, 52, used to work as a state forester, viewing trees as lumber, then began running survival training courses and log-cabin tours.
Photographs on the Web site of the Prosecutor General's Investigative Committee purport to show the lumber cargo and a bullet hole in one of the cabin walls.
It is astonishing to me how much wood the cabin has swallowed during the process of construction: framing lumber, sheathing, siding and now interior walls and floors.
(The cabin was built, it so happens, from beetle-kill spruce, a form of lumber that is more available these days than before the beetles knocked off so many trees).
