our friends at Longman & Eagle spent the weekend with us a couple of weeks ago when they were they guest chef restaurant for the ‘outstanding in field’ dinner event next door (at Dietzler Farms) HOST FARMERS: Bob Dietzler & The Dietzler Family, Dietzler FarmsGUEST CHEF: Jared Wentworth, Longman & Eagle, Chicago and a little bit about Outstanding In The Field… “Our mission is to re-connect diners to the land and the origins of their food, and to honor the local farmers and food artisans who cultivate it. Outstanding in the Field is a roving culinary adventure – literally a…
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Recently an elderly couple paid us a surprised visit. He said that he had vacationed at Wandawega Lake Resort with his family back in the ’40s, or was it the ’50s? He had stories of dinner at the “gourmet” Polish restaurant (now the main lodge)… and how it was converted to a “activity lodge” following dinner. He told us stories of how the owner would open the window in the restaurant after dinner and let in the friendly raccoon, who would travel from table to table begging for table scraps from the customers, and for dessert would sit on the…
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We host Art Camp each summer at Wandawega (in collaboration with Angela of Post 27). A weekend of relaxation, collaboration, production and meeting new friends. Up in Northern Michigan, a similar event happens in June. Make Effect is a 3-day long art and design retreat held at Camp Tosebo in Manistee, Michigan. Here’s what it’s all about, in their own words… What if you could work under the trees rather than florescent lights? Come escape to Camp Make Effect for learning, relaxation, creativity and camaraderie. By day get messy making and trying out new processes and by night get silly…
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the bare Mutants and our friends at Longman & Eagle came to spend a weekend with us a camp this summer! some outtakes from a fun weekend of music, smores and fireworks.
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Last weekend I had the pleasure of heading up to Wandawega with my friends Emily and Lindsay. Compared with my last visit (which was a giant party, complete with band and fireworks), this trip was low-key and relaxing. We lounged around in the lake and drank some beers–Emily cooked us meals and Lindsay provided her signature bloody mary. The camp wasn’t booked with guests or shoots, like it has been for most of the summer. Aside from the three of us, there were 2 other couples and a friend of David’s and his 13 year-old son. We quickly made friends…
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celeb photographer Jason Odell rented the log cabin for a few days. turns out his wife is a thriftstore junkie like myself. and they have a babe, too. we love your work, jason. thanks for stopping by. Biography: Jason is a master of eliciting kinetic energy from his subjects, with a snake charmer’s ability to coax dynamic movement, soul, and sheer life force from whatever lies on the other side of his lens. His technical prowess and daredevil’s fearlessness have spontaneously combusted to transform such diverse locales as a lone highway on a cross-country motorcycle trip and the bottom of…
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her name was irene. she met him in 1920 at her childhood summer cottage on the shores of lake wandawega. they married in the 1940s. they would spend the rest of their lives together. Irene had two sisters – they all grew up together spending summers at the cabin. she moved to arizona, but would make the pilgrimage back to the lake house remember where she learned how to fish, build a stone chimney, row a boat and fall in love.
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Bill Sargent is the property manager for Camp Wandawega. He’s the tent-pitching, boat-repairing, arrow-finding, tour-giving, fence-mending, wood-splitting, fishing guide — patient man.We sat down with him (in his copious spare time) to find out where hes from, what he’s into, and how he makes his venesin sausage so damn good. 1. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HUNTING? I like to hunt deer with my bow. WHATS YOUR BIGGEST BAG? a 10 pt buck taken down in delevan wisconsin. 2. WHATS THE LARGEST DEER YOUVE TAKEN DOWN AND WHAT WAS THE TAKE? I processed 100 lbs of meat into: jerky, sausage…
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for a straight man, our property manager bill sure does have a good eye…he found this in a ditch on near wandawega and dragged it back to camp for us (thanks, bill!) you gotta love the wisconsinite who collected all these travel stickers over the course of 5 decades and collaged them onto this home made trunk. its so charming (to me) there are no words….. 🙂.
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