… and it was the best gift ever.  This older gentleman took the time to pen his memories of down for us. It’s confirmed what we have always thought- nothing has changed in over 60 years. (Thanks, Bob for sharing this with us.) (He also shared a really special gift, rolls of super-8 film of every summer vacation spent at Wandawega for over a decade of his childhood. We cut a little film together with it CHECK IT OUT. CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF  WANDAWEGA My memories are that of a 5-10 year old, so I cannot guarantee how accurate some of them are, although others are very…

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The cover teaser : “THE MARKET FOR NOSTALGIA”… is next to a shot of the camp living room (filled with nothing but thrift store stuff) … and still a little shocked that they called us, wanting  to include an old camp alongside some (very intimidatingly) fancy mansions, and their equally fancy owners. (can you tell that we have an inferiority complex?:) The story is called “Buying Vacation Homes where you grew up – Some buyers are returning to their roots, getting retreats in places that store their childhood memories.” The Wandawega story is in their section is called Mansion, (an interesting…

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We’ve been told by the local elders & armchair historians what this room was once used for, and sort of dismissed it as rumor until too much evidence presented itself to deny it. But as our local sherrif told us: ‘if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck’. … as is the case with our basement rathskellar. It was once a gambling room used for liquor storage during prohibition (and continuing well into the 40s when house madame would sell unregulated booze, trucked in from Chicago outfit). She also kept a her gambling…

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