Wandawega Blog Archive

As much as he loves chasing snowballs on ice, Frankie is looking forward to getting back in the saddle riding sidecar again this spring. // photo by @simplybysuzy for @monicaandandy

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS! We are starting our new year here watching & waiting patiently as the bunny hatches her masterplan for 2017. ( She’ll unveil & brief us in after her morning coffee) we appear to have an eavesdropper at the door

This cabin has a dark secret. In 1942, a Chicago criminal on the run – John Gabriele – used it as his hideout after murdering his lover – Virginia Bodziach – who had jilted him. (He then kidnapped another woman at gunpoint and forced her to drive him here to camp) Decades later when the Catholic Church bought camp the priests would begin each spring by walking the grounds, blessing it (and every building within) with holy water to purge all prior sins. // Things like this had been happening for years and were unfortunately not uncommon – ultimately resulting in this place being deemed “a disgrace to the great state of Wisconsin” by John Roach, chief of the Wisconsin State Beverage Tax Division, in 1941. // to learn more visit Wandawega history.org – this story as documented in the Elkhorn Independent newspaper for the two page article on the august 31 1942 incident. #TinyHousesOfWandawega

The road home to Christmas has always been lined with endless miles of corn fields / “Used to daydream in that small town” – J.C.M. 1985 (never gets old) – always a solid reminder to get some perspective as a new year approaches.

TB to Charlie’s first sledding excursion down the treehouse bunny hill. We layered her up in camp sweaters and she refused to quit even when her nose started to freeze . HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE, FRIENDS… hope you all get to relive that little part of our childhoods where you are having too much fun to notice that your toes have turned to little ice cubes