LEISURELY LIVING

Pictured above, in the Belvedere bayou, is a party of summer people in a NAPHTHA LAUNCH, a type of pleasure craft so called because the engine was especially built to be powered by a naphtha fueled engine. However, the engine was bulky for the power developed and soon gave way to the more efficient gasoline type engine.

SPRING BREAKUP

In the Spring breakup of 1898 Mother Nature put on one of her more spectacular shows when millions of tons of honeycomb ice was piled along the Lake Michigan shore by an unusually strong, three day, northwest wind.

A similar phenomenon occured along the south shore of Little Travers Bay on April 4, 1963, when a strong blow piled the rotting ice 40 feet high in places.

LOGS FOR THE MILL

When logs for the mill were in plentiful supply during the winter.

LOGS FOR THE MILL