Barefoot on Crane Island (Midwest Reflections) - Hardcover

Douglas, Marjorie Myers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873513622 ISBN 13: 9780873513623

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Writer Marjorie Douglas recalls her idyllic, fun-filled summer days on Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka in the 1920s when she and her two brothers spent long hours swimming, diving off the dock and from the ten-foot-high tower, slipping out of the house after dark for excursions with their friends, and exploring the island from end to end.

The Myers family-practical, idealistic father, dainty, dignified mother, serious older brother Bob, rascally younger brother Everett, and Marjorie, the middle child and only girl-moved to the island cottage every summer once school let out and stayed until classes began again. Her story of those peaceful seasons is a fond reminiscence of a loving and supportive family and a powerful reminder of the timeless beauty of Minnesota summers at the lake.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Marjorie Myers Douglas was a social worker for seventeen years in the Minneapolis public schools. She is the author of Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years as a Farmwife (MHS Press, 1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0873513622
• ISBN 13: 9780873513623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 233