Cabins of Minnesota (Minnesota Byways)

Pat Dillow said Not what I needed. Good book, but not what I wanted. I had in mind more of a coffee table book with lots of photography.. Wonderful Book Amazon Customer I really love this book. Great pictures and full of fun info! I cannot wait to go on vacation this summer and visit some of the places mentioned. We actually stayed at the Pine Grove Cabins pictured in the book last year (2012) and it was wonderful. Looks jus. Five Stars Kimberly Artmann Have several of these books, they are all great

Bill Holm is the author of several books of essays and poetry and teaches at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.

. About the Author Bill Holm is the author of several books of essays and poetry and teaches at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota

In a cabin retreat," he writes, "pleasure overcomes duty for a little while.". The lake cabin. Early mornings on the sleeping porch, lunches on the dock, late-night cleanings in the fish house. But Minnesota's seasonal getaways aren't limited to its bountiful lakes: vacationers trek to hideaways in the woods, to ice shacks along the Mississippi River; even out to cottages beside the highways, relics from the days when farmers rented vacation places along cornfields and cow pastures.Popular photographer Doug Ohman and renowned writer and poet Bill Holm highlight the state's unique and treasured cabins—a vintage Fredenberg Lake compound near Duluth; the celebrated mom-and-pop Fairyland Cabins of Detroit Lakes; a cabin situated on top of a pontoon in Rose Lake. Holm's eclectic prose combines stories of the ancient and new and illuminates the rewards of the cabin life: "the pleasures of fishing, daydreaming, sunset watching and star counting, the leisure to take stock of one's life without the surround-sound noise of the new wired century