Vignetts from the good old days in one of Wisconsin's most beautiful resort villages

Fordel Hogenson, who built a schooner and the first hotel

Carl Anserson, who slept on a hair mattress with all his cats

A Russian-born architect whose wife pilfered neighbors flowers

The Valentine Family leading a sing-a-long at their hotel

Stunt flyer and hustler Jimmy Woofuff and his ill-fated hotel

The many joys and chalanges of the one-room schoolhouse

The family that lived in a house of sticks...And other stories