University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-299-28673-6 | Cloth: 978-0-299-28670-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3603.R456B35 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Open this book and you are in Door County, Wisconsin, strolling down Coot Lake Road—a one-lane, dead-end gravel track just a few miles from Baileys Harbor and the Lake Michigan shore. Along the way you meet George and Helen O’Malley, who are growing old gracefully. Russell, their brave and empathetic golden retriever, wags hello and offers you a paw to shake.
The Olsons and the Berges live just down the road. Bump Olson is the local septic tank pumper and birdwatcher extraordinaire, and Hans Berge, MD, PhD, was at one time the only Norwegian psychiatrist in Chicago—or so he says. In a cottage out by the highway, you may spot Lloyd Barnes, ex–Tennessee state trooper, hound fancier, and local man of mystery. Uncle Petter Sorenson, visiting from Grand Forks, takes the polar bear plunge at Jacksonport. Around the neighborhood you’ll meet Deputy Doug, the flirtatious cellist Debbie Dombrowski, and Italian import Rosa Zamboni.
Dave Crehore’s sketches of life on the Door peninsula also expound on:
• the delights of codfish pizza
• how to insult Canadians
• what to expect at your fiftieth high school reunion
• how to lose a school board election
• the prevention of creeping old-fogyism
• Marilyn, a buxom eight-pound smallmouth bass
• and what goes on in the winter, when no one is there.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dave Crehore is a longtime resident of northeast Wisconsin and a retired writer and photographer for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. His first book, Sweet and Sour Pie, was also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
REVIEWS
“Underneath the hilarity in The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club are themes of caring, sharing, honesty, and a love for rural living.”—Jerry Apps, author of Blue Shadows Farm
“For an inexpensive trip to one of Wisconsin’s premier tourist sites, read The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club by Dave Crehore.”—Hudson Star-Observer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Back Home Again in Baileys Harbor
Don't Get Old Before I Do
Bear Trouble
About As Good As It Gets
The Hound of the Basketballs
The Outcasts of Caribou Camp
Pennies from Heaven
The Four Musketeers
Let George Do It
Reefer Madness
Just a Gigolo
Miracle on Coot Lake Road
Petter Takes the Plunge
Hidden Depths
The Last Summer
The Return of Tuddy
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-299-28673-6 Cloth: 978-0-299-28670-5
Open this book and you are in Door County, Wisconsin, strolling down Coot Lake Road—a one-lane, dead-end gravel track just a few miles from Baileys Harbor and the Lake Michigan shore. Along the way you meet George and Helen O’Malley, who are growing old gracefully. Russell, their brave and empathetic golden retriever, wags hello and offers you a paw to shake.
The Olsons and the Berges live just down the road. Bump Olson is the local septic tank pumper and birdwatcher extraordinaire, and Hans Berge, MD, PhD, was at one time the only Norwegian psychiatrist in Chicago—or so he says. In a cottage out by the highway, you may spot Lloyd Barnes, ex–Tennessee state trooper, hound fancier, and local man of mystery. Uncle Petter Sorenson, visiting from Grand Forks, takes the polar bear plunge at Jacksonport. Around the neighborhood you’ll meet Deputy Doug, the flirtatious cellist Debbie Dombrowski, and Italian import Rosa Zamboni.
Dave Crehore’s sketches of life on the Door peninsula also expound on:
• the delights of codfish pizza
• how to insult Canadians
• what to expect at your fiftieth high school reunion
• how to lose a school board election
• the prevention of creeping old-fogyism
• Marilyn, a buxom eight-pound smallmouth bass
• and what goes on in the winter, when no one is there.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dave Crehore is a longtime resident of northeast Wisconsin and a retired writer and photographer for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. His first book, Sweet and Sour Pie, was also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
REVIEWS
“Underneath the hilarity in The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club are themes of caring, sharing, honesty, and a love for rural living.”—Jerry Apps, author of Blue Shadows Farm
“For an inexpensive trip to one of Wisconsin’s premier tourist sites, read The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club by Dave Crehore.”—Hudson Star-Observer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Back Home Again in Baileys Harbor
Don't Get Old Before I Do
Bear Trouble
About As Good As It Gets
The Hound of the Basketballs
The Outcasts of Caribou Camp
Pennies from Heaven
The Four Musketeers
Let George Do It
Reefer Madness
Just a Gigolo
Miracle on Coot Lake Road
Petter Takes the Plunge
Hidden Depths
The Last Summer
The Return of Tuddy
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE