A giant slab of madrona wood sits near the brick fireplace at Fairhaven's FireHouse Cafe, which on a recent weekday morning was full of patrons sipping coffee and tea, swapping stories and making puns.
“I call him Yule Brenner,” quipped a man sitting adjacent to the fireplace, pointing to the dense yule log that will be lit starting at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 16 and continue to be stoked and watched by “yule loggers” until the last ember falls through the grate and the clock is stopped
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