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    LAND OF MAGIC

    Jun 22, 2021 5 minutes
    STORY BY VERONICA THEODORO
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY CARMEN TROESSER

    Living in an 1800s log cabin has taught Katherine Hacker a lot about who she wants to be, but in many ways it’s also shown her who she’s always been. Hacker, 30, grew up in a historic cabin 20 miles southwest of where she lives today near Washington. The oldest of three children, Hacker loved spending time outdoors.

    “We didn’t have cable. I wasn’t into Barbies,” she says. “I remember the creek in the back of the house and running to my dad’s shop. I loved hanging out with him.” Her father, Bill Hacker, worked as a laborer and later made a name for himself as a restorer of historic log cabins in Franklin County. “He would buy them and

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