Once upon an isle : the story of fishing families on Isle Royale
Publication Information
Mount Horeb, Wis. : Wisconsin Folk Museum, 1992.
Physical Description
111 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 x 30 cm.
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction / Paintings and stories
- Winter on the North Shore
- Spring arrival
- Painting the gas boat
- The Winyah
- Picking bait nets
- Baiting hooklines
- Lunch break on the hooklines
- The fish house
- Boat day
- Perilous exchange
- Seining
- Salting down the catch
- Raiding the Cox
- Wash day
- The visitors
- Bible class
- The red skiff
- T'Dora's rock garden
- Shore work
- The America connection
- Picking pulpwood
- Fourth of July
- Planked fish and sangerfest
- Lifting trout nets
- Pounding home
- Refuge
- Emergency repairs
- Waiting
- Tied to a buoy
- Wiped out
- Bachelor's shack
- Moving day
- A family tradition
- Caught inside the breakers
- Retirement
- Grandma seeks fortune
- New "boat day"
- Poached moose
- December departure
- Exiles
- Epilogue
- Special dedication
- Afterword / Further resources.