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[Photos by Tricia Youngquist]
The pure, good old-fashioned way of doing things -- that's what it was all about this weekend at the Railsplitter Festival on the Logan County Fairgrounds. Competitors split, chopped and sawed logs in front of the grandstand. Meanwhile, on the grounds surrounding the area,
re-enactors demonstrated the chores of daily living from pioneering days.
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