Jay Shays Firewood

About Jay Shays Firewood

A cold snap on Mount Desert Island has a sound to it — woodstove ticking, tires squeaking on packed snow, a plow somewhere down the road at four in the morning. Jay Shays Firewood is often that plow, clearing Bar Harbor driveways, dooryards and walkways once a storm has had its say. The work is unglamorous and completely necessary: push it back, square the corners, open the path to the door and to the woodpile both. Storms here come off the water heavy and wet, and a drive opened early is a drive that stays open. By daylight the only evidence is bare gravel and a household running like it's any other day.