The Gunflint Cabin: A Northwoods Memoir

by John Henricksson

John Henricksson, 81, has written about the natural and cultural history of northern Minnesota for fifty years in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, film and books. The Gunflint Cabin: A Northwoods... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592982190
• ISBN13: 9781592982196
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Bookhouse Fulfillment
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A wonderfully immersive, true tale of the ups and downs of a simpler life

Award-winning author John Henricksson presents The Gunflint Cabin: A Northwoods Memoir, a memoir hodgepodge drawn from his daily life for 28 years. The Gunflint Cabin tells of encounters with wildlife, foraging for berries, creative outhouse designs, baking bread, making repairs to the water system, the continual upkeep of cabin property, and much more. An afterword deserves special note for its reference to two events that have the potential to drastically change the region: natural disasters of wind and wildfire, and perhaps more deadly, a new wave of affluence that threatens to remold the wild country into "Suburbia North". A wonderfully immersive, true tale of the ups and downs of a simpler life. Also highly recommended are Henricksson's previous two Gunflint region books, "A Wild Neighborhood" and "Gunflint: The Trail, The People, The Stories".

A get-away place with good memories

The Gunflint Cabin is set in the Gunflint region of northern Minnesota, an area sparsely populated by humans. The author recounts his time spent there, with bears, moose, mice, and other wildlife, and reminisces fondly about his time on the lake in a rustic cabin. The chapters are short, easy to read, and each is followed by a more intimate look into a journal that ties into the chapter in someway. The Gunflint Cabin is reminiscent on a simpler time, one when all families had their own family cabin on the lake somewhere, and weekends and vacations were spent at the lake, swimming, chopping firewood, and living without the modern conveniences of even indoor plumbing. I enjoyed reading The Gunflint Cabin, because it reminded me of vacations at our family cabin on a lake in Michigan. I remember those days fondly, and it was fun to revisit them on memories lane while reading The Gunflint Cabin. Anyone who has a family cabin in their past, or even wants to visit one via the pages of a book, will enjoy reading The Gunflint Cabin. Armchair Interviews says: If you are lucky, you know the experience of a cabin getaway.