Larry Beahan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Introduction | My Dad was born in an Adirondack logging camp on the Little River near Aldrich, New York. My grandfather, Tom Beahan, together with his older brothers, John and Barty, jobbed a logging contract there for Peter Yousey from 1902 to 1907. Gramma, Minnie Beahan, and my great aunt, Oliva Beahan, lived in log camps with them, cooked for thirty men, tended and bore children. The family never made much of this history. Dad was only three when they moved to a camp near Natural Bridge so he hardly remembered Aldrich at all. The big thing early in his life was coming to Buffalo and to make a decent living, something that was not easily done up there. Uncle Raymond and cousin Bessie were older. Once they began to mellow they were able to describe that Camp on the Little River When I was a kid Dad used to take us to visit Gramma and Grampa in Carthage on the edge of the Adirondacks every summer. Even though their place had double bitted axes and crosscut saws and an outhouse it didn’t dawn on me that we were lumberjacks. But when I discovered the picture of Grampa's logging crew and added things up, it set me to writing. |
| Interests | Adirondacks.Allegany State Park,canoeing,camping,hiking, photography,bicycling,conservation,old growth forests,writing,fiction,sailing,travel,high latitudes,flying,swimming |
| Favorite movies | Drums Along the Mohawk,The Wild Bunch,Doctor Strange Love, |
| Favorite music | Folk Songs, Peter Paul and Mary,Pete Seeger, Kingston Trio |
| Favorite books | Huckleberry Fin and Mark Twains posthumous autobiography (Though I'm not far into it.)Shakespeare's Richard the Third |