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The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer

“Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden.  More than a century-and-a-half later, Robert Motschmann of Berne is no exception. In Saturday’s rain, he stands beside 13 cords of wood that stretch for 92 feet. A full cord measures 4 feet deep by 4 feet high by 8 feet long; a face cord measures 4 feet high by 8 feet long.