Once upon an isle : the story of fishing families on Isle Royale

Call Number

  • H 639.2 S6246 (CEN)

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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.