In this private journal Dorothy Simonson tells of the joys and hardships of a winter spent on Isle Royale. She accounts with honesty and humor the challenges she faced during her eight months as a teacher for a fisherman's family in 1932 - 33.
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The swings of emotion, the ups and downs of spirit, and the sometimes intemperate personal remarks recorded, give this diary the reality of Isle Royale as it was then--wonderous, awe inspriting, beautiful and majestic but countered by the isolation, the sometimes claustrophobic atmosphere, the weariness the immensity of the task, the very real hardships.
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The words that follow record the true feelings and unabridged thoughts of a dedicated teacher, a wonderful mother, and a great friend.
Bob Simonson, Editor
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Teacher spends winter of 1932-33 on Lake Superior island,
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This review is from: The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher (Paperback)
An excellent book giving an insight of how one person experienced the isolated life of Isle Royale during one winter of 1932-33. This is a fast-reading book which is not easy to set down. Anyone who has visited the beautiful island of Isle Royale National Park should find this diary interesting and captivating. Book's epilogue and editorial notes by author's son add special insight.
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Like a captivity narrative with the U.S. economy as the captor.,
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This review is from: The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher (Paperback)
Fascinating read. Hard to set down. The journaling of one rugged, winter in the isolation of a stormy physical and severely limited social environment extracting their toll on a single mother and child, far from the familiarity of home and family during the depression of the early twentieth century.
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The diary of an Isle royale School teacher,
This review is from: The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher (Paperback)
This was an excellant book on how harsh a winter could be on an isolated island in lake Superior. An easy book to read and, very interesting about life in general. A must read book.
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Bob and I left Duluth at 10:30 A.M. on the S.S. "Winyah," a fish-mail boat which runs between Isle Royale and Duluth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Rock Harbor, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Chippewa Harbor, Hay Bay, Tourist Home, Copper Country, Davidson Island, Johnson Island, Lowell Thomas, Adam Roach, Belle Isle, Ben Benson, Crow Point, George Burgan, Gretchen Ashley, President Roosevelt, Professor Swenson, Sunny Well, Wright's Island New!
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Bob and I left Duluth at 10:30 A.M. on the S.S. "Winyah," a fish-mail boat which runs between Isle Royale and Duluth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Rock Harbor, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Chippewa Harbor, Hay Bay, Tourist Home, Copper Country, Davidson Island, Johnson Island, Lowell Thomas, Adam Roach, Belle Isle, Ben Benson, Crow Point, George Burgan, Gretchen Ashley, President Roosevelt, Professor Swenson, Sunny Well, Wright's Island New!
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- A New Name (Grace Livingston Hill Series) by Grace Livingston Hill on page 5
- No Place Like Home: A Story about an All-Black, All American Town by Hannibal B. Johnson on page 56
- The Hidden Hand (Oxford Popular Fiction) by E. D. E. N. Southworth on page 42
- Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather on page 36
- Isle Royale National Park: Foot Trails & Water Routes (3rd edition) by Jim Dufresne in Back Matter
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