Ione Brack
Rail chalk
Ione draws the shoulder line with a mill pencil on a paper overlay. She learned patience in a Hiawatha machine shop. If the rail is steep, she will not let a sole conversation start.
The crew
Two people, one pencil, no guru mill
You will meet whoever is holding the overlay. No sponsor ledger. No nameplates.
Both learned machine-shop patience before catalogs. That order still runs the ledger.
Piet Dern
River dust margin
Piet writes grain-dust and river humidity on every overlay. Marion players who forget the mill air they live in get a blank margin until they tell the truth.