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One audio cassette. Hammack discusses his life working as a millwright and sawyer. He describes working at a lumber mill on the St. Mark's River below Tallahassee; on a lumber mill in Tifton, Georgia; at a lumber company in Moultrie, Georgia; and as a superintendent on lumber jobs in Woodville, Florida; Quitman, Georgia; and Cordele, Georgia. During World War I, he cut yellow pine and built wooden ships for the Navy. Later he moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and built 82 Liberty ships for the war effort. In 1976, he moved to White Springs, Florida, and built his own mill there. Hammack devotes a considerable portion of the interview to discussing the methods and processes he used for sawing lumber and the costs involved in owning and operating a lumber mill.
The tape is in poor condition and there are gaps and fidelity problems in the transfer.