sawmills

The Campbell family has watched their friends and neighbors move across the Straits of Mackinac to a new island home on Mackinac Island, but they choose to stay behind in hope that the American Revolution will soon end.

Shows how trees in Vermont are cut down and taken to a sawmill where they are turned into lumber, wood chips, and other useful products.

A senior basketball-player shoulders the hopes of a dying mill town and her bereaved family when she and an eccentric English-teacher/coach try to lead their team to state basketball history.

Tells how the pioneers cut down the trees to clear their land and the various ways the trees were used. Also discusses the first sawmills.