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b'Ninety-eight years ago, in a logging camp deep in the forests of British Columbia, a logger in a funny hat walked up to a big stump, an ax in his hand.\\n\\nTaking off the hat \\u2014 it was a battered bowler, an old-fashioned dandy\\u2019s hat even in 1923 \\u2014 he laid it on the stump, set a nail in it, and drove it in.\\n\\nThen he turned and walked away. Probably he walked straight to the logging locomotive for his last ride into town. Nailing the hat to the stump was a symbolic act \\u2014 Stewart H. Holbrook was quitting the logging business forever. (Oregon timber country; 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/21-07.stewart-holbrook-599.html)'