Working on the Jim Baker cabin in Savery, HistoriCorps crew leader Karina Burbank sometimes feels like she’s playing a giant game of Lincoln Logs, with one important difference.

It takes a whole lot more effort and sweat to place a real, hand-hewn cottonwood log into Jim Baker’s cabin than it would a toy Lincoln Log.

It is literally back-breaking work, Burbank said, and has to be done with human safety and cabin preservation in mind.

That means jacking up the existing cabin to support the weight above each rotten log in the structure. Only then can the rotten logs be taken out and replaced with a brand-new, hand-hewn one.

To that end, there are now pyramid-shaped stacks of wooden boards called “cribbing” surrounding the Baker Cabin as members of HistoriCorps have arrived to work for th

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