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                                             2025 UPDATE! CHICAGO ILLINOIS Follow along here on Instagram as we turn a 144 year old Chicago storefront into a place for creative endeavors, events, and quality time. THAT SUMMER FEELING Replete with historical and cultural significance, forged through passing generations, Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, Wisconsin , still oozes a nostalgic all-American charm thanks to its current custodians... All original elements have been dutifully preserved, while any new structures added by Tereasa and David have been salvaged from neighbouring farms, treehouses and lakeside cabins. The result is an assemblage of locally sourced, recycled lodgings . Among these, one encounters the Hill House, a more contemporary lodge; the Craft Cabin, a charming 1940s shack relocated from a nearby site; and the latest addition, a gi...

RIP Uncle Chet

My Uncle Chet and my Aunt Mary inherited Grandma Rose's cabin in Solon Springs, south of Superior, Wisconsin. I spent my childhood at the lake with them. He let me hold my first garden snake and took me berry picking. One time, he saved my life when I was stung in the face by hornets.  He was the best uncle on the planet. He was goofy, and really really silly at times which made him all the more loveable.

John Chester “J” McIntyre Sr.

Birth
Wisconsin, USA
Death
May 1974 (aged 67)
Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
 
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Wife, my Aunt Mary

He also had two brothers: Archie and Malcolm.  And several sisters who I remember as kind and lovely. They were all Scottish and definitely Ojibwe.
 
Chet's son Pete is my godfather. 

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