Kingdom of the Jalberts: Greg Jalbert for Yankee Magazine, 1990
Everything unraveled one sultry late-summer afternoon in 1958, the horrifying day that changed the Allagash River forever.
"Along Maine's Allagash River] the Jalberts were the wildest. Ours was the only family to haul upriver and over a portage trail refrigerators, stoves, furniture, and building supplies. One of the camps was logged in just three days from the time the trees were felled to the time the peak-a-gee was rolled into the notches at the top of the roof. Without time to cut trails, the men dragged 30-foot logs through the brush, the butts cradled in the spiked cant hooks of two peaveys as the men bulled against the handles. Their skin was stained black with spruce pitch."
Yankee Magazine: "Kingdom of the Jalberts"
