Posts tagged northwoods

Big Spider Lake:

For a lot of midwesterners, summer is the time to head “Up North” to a lakefront cabin or camp on one of Wisconsin’s pristine northwoods lakes. For five generations, commentator Marnie Mamminga and her family have returned to Big Spider Lake near Hayward – to the cabin her grandparents built. It’s a place that holds a lot of history.

Marnie Mamminga has just written a memoir about the place – called “Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts.”

Finnish Saunas:

What could possibly make hundreds, maybe thousands, of Wisconsin residents jump naked into freezing lakes? It’s called a Finnish sauna, and commentator Arnold Alanen says it’s part of our state’s heritage.

Commentator Arnold Alanen is an emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin. He recently wrote the introduction to a new book called “The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition.”