From rocket science to reassembly of old log cabin

Published: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:05 a.m. MDT
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Who knew that when Wes Morgan was working on the Saturn 5 rocket for NASA, he was honing the skills he would someday need to build a log cabin in Santaquin?

And who would guess that the same principles would apply to rocket science and a rustic, pioneer home?

"When we started on this, it was wrecked," said Morgan, who is retired from Boeing Co. "Thirteen logs were so rotten they had to be replaced, which made trying to move it intact impossible. Instead we disassembled it, numbered the logs and hauled it over. Then we put it back together. I thought it would be easy. It wasn't."

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