Wallace

All right, so let's dive in.

So on February 8th, 1921, in Wallace, Idaho, a little girl named Julia Jean was born to John Virgil Turner and his wife, Mildred.

Now, Julia would go by the nickname Judy for now, until she would, of course, later change her name to Lana.

We are getting ahead of ourselves.

And then as firefighters, we all know the story of the 1910 wildfires and Ed Pulaski and the Pulaski firefighting tool that is the world standard of a firefighting tool these days.

The original Pulaski is in the museum in Wallace, Idaho.

Oh, it is? We have a picture of that in the Axe Museum.

Which is

So I got it and brought it home and kind of threw it in the pile and never really thought anything about it.

until I was writing the Axe Manual.

And there was one of the other Forest Service employees on the Wallace District that worked with Ed Pulaski.

And he said that he was the one that actually developed the prototype of the Pulaski.

God.

But I think it's funny because the downata- uh, the town of Dante's Peak is actually in Wallace, Idaho.

And, uh-

Oh

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I don't, I don't think I actually went through Wallace, Idaho.

I don't think I went through it because...

Let me see.