CLASS OF '64 - NEVER DID DO AS THEY WERE TOLD

Be sure to go to the bottom of this blog, click on "The Best of Conrad" to read what he wrote about our reunion.

Class of 1964 - Lake Mills Bulldogs!

July 25 - 45 years later!

"There is satisfaction in taking a small boat,
built with one's own hands, out onto 300 feet of blue water,
knowing that it is all right! It is no ocean craft, but it growls back at whatever is heaving it about, slowing a little if necessary,
giving the sense that if common sense is followed,
it can do what it was meant to do: to allow a critter with legs
to cross to the next island. One can go quite a long ways,
crossing to the next island; even to return."
[Conrad Royksund, Stockton Island, one of the Apostles]

Second Mate is in the slip at the Madeline Island Marina, Apostle Islands

THE LOGHOUSE
It doesn't look much like it did during its first hundred years!

It's a bit of magic in the rural countryside.

This is the inside of our loghouse in Iowa.

Conrad rebuilt this from an old loghouse that was almost as old as the state! Its first century was spent near Castalia. Its new life started when Conrad moved it to our place in the country...we were married here when it was just a shell.

Family

"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted." ~Paul Pearshall