On a sunny, warm day in downtown Haines, Dave Pahl is determined to show and not tell what’s going wrong with the nearly 20-foot-tall hammer that stands outside of the Hammer Museum.
He stoops down to a spot at the base where the wood looks flimsy, reached inside the handle and pulled out a handful of damp, deteriorating pieces.
He grinned. “You could almost make coffee with that.”
A little further up the dark spruce,…