He could see both ways on the road and he looked up the hill and then down to the dock and the lake, the wooded point across the bay and the open lake beyond where there were white caps running.

These minimalist structures offer everything one might expect from a Finnish cabin: peaceful lakeside setting, open fire, terrace, personal sauna and the chance to jump naked into a lake.

Less than tenyears later the walleye had rebounded; the lake that the Chippewa call"the food storehouse" was again open to commercial fishing.