May 21—Outside in a courtyard at Kalispell Middle School, a small log cabin — the handiwork of eighth-graders — is taking shape log by log. "All of the people coming out to Montana in the late 1800s ...

At the age of 81, Charles “Mac” McRaven still can swing a goosewing broadax with the authority of a young Abe Lincoln. Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built ...

Welcome to our Log Cabin Project, where we build a tiny log cabin from scratch using materials sourced from our land. In this episode, we notch logs for the first floor using hand tools such as saws, ...

Puzzle boxes, not pastry, fill the antique pie safe in the corner. Pieces of the next-up puzzle cover the surface of a vintage farmhouse table. An even bigger puzzle surrounds all of this: an 1800s ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner helps, from left, Rowan Wisher, Gavin Baker and Cooper Pelc cut a saddle notch as Schreiner's eighth-grade history students construct a log cabin on ...