Aunt Bert Reunites With Ellen and Red, by Jim & Pat Dooley

Pat and I weren’t even considering Teal Lake when in 2005 we were shopping for a lake home.  It just seemed too far from Hayward and our friends who own a place on Round Lake.  But as soon as we walked through the 1927 log home and saw the grand view of the Teal Lake islands, we were smitten.  We have grown to love the Quiet Lakes, watching families with little kids fishing from twelve and fourteen foot boats with 10 horsepower motors.  We don’t really need to see or hear jet skis and huge bass boats flying by at full throttle.  Little did we know that the “Sunset Lodge” loons would spend most of their time right in front of our windows!   continued..........

That Old Red Boathouse on Teal; by Donna Nickel

In the early twentieth century, our part of the woods was pretty well logged out. The logging companies were able to make a little bit more money off the land a second time by selling off their holdings. It only made sense that the owners of paper companies were the first to become aware of the lands coming onto the market.     continued......