The Lake House

corner of the lake after the young Melvyn 'Mel' Lorne House (b 1938) buys the land, Oak cottage and other buildings from Blackshaw. House's cottages or “House's House" for some, becomes Rock Garden Camp. Mel is from MacTier south of the lake. The rental cottages' names are after trees: Cedar, Elm, Oak, Evergreen, Pine, Spruce and Maple. Old summer residents, such as Nelson Bushnell were a little “exercised” as the camp to its form for they didn't want to have to look at it from Phoenix Is. 1959 Mr. House, as he was getting…

First Day at the Lake “Brooklyn, wake up. It's time to get up and get dressed and get ready to leave.” My dad said as he shook me awake. It was mid summer and my plane awaits my family and I. As I rolled over and opened my eyes, looking at my alarm clock, I noticed it was 4:08am. I was really excited to get up and get ready to leave. “We leave in 20 minutes, hurry up and get dressed and finish up your last minute packing.” My dad yelled from the bottom of the stairs to my brothers and I.…

Lake House Last summer When I was invited to a friend’s lake house my heart sank deeply, because it meant I would have to miss a very important hockey tournament, but in the end it turned out to be one of the best weekends of the summer. The hockey tournament was a very important event for me, but when I found out I could go it causeD me to be very miserable and not to be excited to go to the lake house.This was a very important event in my life, because as the days went by, I realized how…

Not Just another Lake House Our family lake house is full of fun and gregarious laughter all summer long. Ever since I have been old enough to remember, I have spent the bulk of my summer weekends on mile marker number 3. This is where my grandparents have owned a lake house since I have been alive. My dad and grandparents have owned homes at the lake since the late 1960s, so it is no shock that I have also acquired a taste for wanting to leave the populace and noisy city and head out…

My friends and I have been having a hard week and we wanted to just relax so I suggested to them my lake house house. They wanted a little bit more rustic feel to camping but none of us really had any actual camping gear so we just opted for the lake house. We got all the essentials for the weekend: bug repellent, snacks, a radio, and a friendly little card game to take our minds off the world back at home. Everything was going smooth until it hit about six-ish, that’s when everything…

When I was about 3 years old, I can remember my Grandparents lake house in Houston, Texas. My parents and I lived there until my grandparents moved into the country 2 hours outside Houston. Before moving, I can remember my mother taking me out to the lake to feed the ducks and always telling me I can’t swim in the lake because it’s too dirty. I remember going into the kitchen to get juice and spilled it everywhere and was found cleaning my mess while cursing because I thought saying “Shit” and…

Gonzo's Lake House On a nice sunny summer day Veronica, Victoria, and I woke up around 9:30-10:00. We ate breakfast and right away we wanted to go out on the boat and go tubing. Every time we go out there we always wake up and right away go tubing… Also, we have to wait for Joe to wake up. Luckily Uncle Tony was there, so he took us. He is so much funnier than Joe. When we went tubing Joe told Tony that if one of us did not ski then we could not tube. So I tried, but it didn't go so well,…

My Lake House My stepmom, Karla, asked my dad, Donald, if he wanted the family to come down to the lake house. Included to the family is our dogs. Tank, Gizmo, and cricket are our dogs names. Cricket is a rat terrier, Gizmo is a lab along with Tank. Our lake house is in Martinsville, Illinois. That is a two and a half hour drive down there with one stop to get something to eat. She had to ask him because her brother lived there before we got the property and he destroyed the trailer. It wasn’t…

Condition of the Great Lakes By: Spenser Larson I am Spenser Larson from Chicago, Illinois . I am qualified to write this editorial because I graduated for the University of Stanford in California. I majored in Environmental Science while being the top of my class. I am currently a scientist for the United States Government. I am worried about the pollution in the great lakes because animals such as baby bird have been known to have deformations because of the cancer their mothers were…

The culling of white pine on Blackstone Lake began in the late 1880s with the arrival of the Conger Lumber Company. Once the commercially viable pine had been fully exploited the process of stripping hemlock trees of their bark for the leather tanning process began on the lake in the spring of 1900. At the time the Rankin Bros., headed by James Rankin on Blackstone, were supplying the Conger Lumber Co. Another sawmill operator in the region was the Mitchell Lumber Co. set up by Thomas Mitchell…