Study in Perfect (2004)
“Green Bay is in party mode. Whitecaps collide and dance from crisscrossing wakes. Pontoon boats putter along, their riders squawking like chicks in aluminum baskets. I breathe in the odor of juniper, mown grass, beer, and yes, alewives, a dozen of them, curled and bloated inside the marina. A storm’s on its way, but sky-wise, there’s only a distant smudge of cloud over Horseshoe Island. Inside the house the girls are waking up—Laura at the fridge, Bonnie rummaging for her hairbrush, best friend... Kristin humming in the shower. A fly finds its way to the honey at the bottom of my teacup.
Ten thousand such mornings have passed since my grandparents purchased a house called Gray Logs, with a lean-to kitchen and 150 feet of waterfront in Ephraim, Wisconsin. In 1947 the village held a few rustic hotels, an ice-cream shop, and Anderson’s dock with its graffiti-clogged barn. American Indians, the French, and Norwegians were among Ephraim’s early visitors. We are the latest, one of fourteen third- and fourth-generation families who now share this property with its Scandinavian log buildings, its hemlocks and swamp, its flocks of mallards and gulls.MoreLess
Ten thousand such mornings have passed since my grandparents purchased a house called Gray Logs, with a lean-to kitchen and 150 feet of waterfront in Ephraim, Wisconsin. In 1947 the village held a few rustic hotels, an ice-cream shop, and Anderson’s dock with its graffiti-clogged barn. American Indians, the French, and Norwegians were among Ephraim’s early visitors. We are the latest, one of fourteen third- and fourth-generation families who now share this property with its Scandinavian log buildings, its hemlocks and swamp, its flocks of mallards and gulls.MoreLess
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