{"id":3984,"date":"2021-02-19T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2021-02-21T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:44:03","slug":"voyageur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/voyageur\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyageur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is another in the “Sunday Story” Series. There’s nothing “political” here – no great moral outcome or outrage. Just a story of watching the Nightly News and vacation memories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fran<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I watched the Nightly News this week.  There were lots of stories:  ice storms in Texas, snowstorms in Washington State, COVID numbers, and the Biden plan.  And, like most evening newscasts, NBC\u2019s Lester Holt tried to end on a \u201chigh note\u201d.  His story was of the snowstorm in Seattle, and the ninety-year-old woman who refused to miss her COVID vaccination appointment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were sitting at the kitchen table, discussing the news as it came across.  So it was only with \u201chalf an ear\u201d that I heard the beginnings of the story:  all transportation was down, the ninety-year-old couldn\u2019t find a ride to the vaccination site \u2013 so she bundled up and walked, six miles (uphill, both ways) to get her COVID shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then they put her picture on the screen.\u00a0\u00a0I turned to Jenn (my wife) and said \u2013 \u201cI know her!!!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It’s Fran Goldman, a face from my distant youth.\u00a0\u00a0Seeing her led my down all sorts of \u201crabbit holes\u201d of memories.\u00a0\u00a0So join me \u2013 down this \u201crabbit hole\u201d of\u00a0family vacations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh Canada!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There is an island on the Canadian side of the US border called St. Joseph\u2019s Island.  It\u2019s just above the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the island farthest east in the St. Mary\u2019s Channel that goes from Lake Superior to Lake Huron, right across from Drummond Island in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow in the 1920\u2019s, that Island became popular among the Cincinnati Jewish set for  summer vacation homes.  One of the original owners were the Fries (pronounced Freeze) who owned Fries and Fries Fragrances and Flavors company in Cincinnati.  If you lived or travelled in Cincinnati in the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s you might remember their plant, on I-75 Southbound just as you passed the Paddock Road exit and the Jim Beam Distillery.  Your car would fill with exotic smells of vanilla or other pleasant odors.  That was Fries and Fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hilton Beach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another was the Ransohoff family, who built a vacation cabin farther down the shore.\u00a0\u00a0And in between was the Steiner cabin, owned by the founders of the Kenner Toy Company.\u00a0\u00a0At the time, there was a train that went from Cincinnati to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, where they could take a ferry across the channel over to Sault Ste Marie, Canada (better known as \u201cThe Soo\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0Another train took them to the small community of Bruce Mines, where they could catch a ferry across to the island, and finally to the town of Hilton Beach, just down the road from their vacation homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other cabins grew along the shoreline, until by the 1950\u2019s there was a whole little community.\u00a0\u00a0From east to west \u2013 Fries, Feder, Steiner, Edelestein, Goldman, Ransohoff.\u00a0\u00a0Their families spent most of the summer up there, with the husbands coming up on vacation for a few days at the beginning, and a few weeks at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father, Don Dahlman, grew up in the apartment below the Ransohoff clan.  By the 1950\u2019s the \u201cRansohoff Compound\u201d included several cabins built around the original, with each of the three sons, Dad\u2019s contemporaries, building their own. So the Dahlman\u2019s visited  Hilton Beach throughout the 1950\u2019s, 60\u2019s and 70’s , and though we never had our own place there, we spent a couple of weeks each summer renting one of the cabins on the beach from before I was born until I was in my twenties.  For my entire first two decades of life \u2013 going on vacation was going to Hilton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing Up On the Lake<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It was a boy\u2019s paradise.\u00a0\u00a0There was the \u201clake,\u201d (not the \u201cbig lake\u201d, Huron, around the bend at Big Point, but a wide gap in the St. Mary\u2019s River) where we boated, skied, and picnicked on various small rock islands.\u00a0\u00a0Those islands had mysterious names like Whiskey Rock and Blueberry Island, and the one with the \u201cslippery sluice\u201d, a moss-covered crevice in the rocks we could slide all the way to the lake.\u00a0\u00a0There were lots of woods to explore between the cabins, with the creeks running down to the lake all smelling of mint.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there were all the people you grew up with, two weeks a year, year after year after year.  Some you were even related to in a distant, third or fifth cousin kind of way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning Bath<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My father\u2019s ritual was that we would all get up in the morning, and \u201cbathe\u201d in the lake.  It wasn\u2019t too early \u2013 9 am or so \u2013 but this was water fresh from Lake Superior.  We never saw ice on it, but it sure felt that way in those mornings when we huddled on the beach, and had \u201cthe great debate\u201d.  Mom would \u201cwash herself in\u201d, using the Ivory Soap that wouldn\u2019t sink to the bottom.  It was a slow painstaking (and painful) process, and only when she was fully lathered and had no other choice would she take the breathtaking dip all the way in.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad, on the other hand, was a \u201cnow or never\u201d kind of bather.  He would immediately take \u201cthe plunge\u201d, come back up with \u201cseal\u201d whoops then call for someone to toss him the soap.  We kids (my two sisters and I, and whatever friends we might have brought with us) would have to decide.  I was like Dad, dive in and get it over with.  If you\u2019ve ever participated in the \u201cice bucket challenge\u201d you\u2019ve got the idea.  We wore swim suits, though there were others on their isolated beaches who didn\u2019t bother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So every morning the \u201cDahlman clan\u201d would head down to the beach, and add a little Ivory Soap (a Cincinnati product made just down the road from the Fries and Fries Plant) to the Great Lakes.\u00a0\u00a0Some mornings it would take just a few minutes (too cold) and some days we might stay a bit longer.\u00a0\u00a0But afterwards it was always get dressed and head for the \u201ccabin\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost England<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Blue jeans and sweat shirts or Canadian flannels were always the morning dress code.\u00a0\u00a0And Canadian bacon, eggs, toast, pancakes, and seemingly everything else was always on the menu.\u00a0\u00a0Mom was British, and Canada seemed a lot closer to \u201cMother England\u201d than the United States in those days.\u00a0\u00a0She could always find her English marmalade, and special salad creams.\u00a0\u00a0And of course for us kids, there were the \u201cexotic\u201d English candies and cookies.\u00a0\u00a0My teeth were toughened by the strongest of caramels, Mackintosh\u2019s toffee bars, where the first bite found any weakness in enamel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the family tradition was to find Peek Frean\u2019s Bourbon Biscuits.  You couldn\u2019t get them in the States (and you can\u2019t get them anywhere now – I’ve tried). But they were a double chocolate cookie, two chocolate wafers with a chocolate filling.  And they tasted even better because you could only find them in Canada, and for us, at the Hilton Beach General Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a couple of other \u201cdelectables\u201d only available in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0When I was young, it was crinkle French fries at \u201cLornie\u2019s Restaurant\u201d \u2013 the only thing I would put vinegar on.\u00a0\u00a0And the only thing to wash those fries down was Grape Crush, a drink that hadn\u2019t made its way across the border back then.\u00a0\u00a0Today, if I can find just the right fries \u2013 and cook them to just the right consistency (crisp and crunch) and sip a Grape Crush, I can travel back fifty-five years in a flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preservers and Beer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dad would rent a boat for the weeks we were there, and as a young child, I remember bedding down underneath the bow, snuggled into the slightly moldy life preservers.  I can still go to sleep to that memory:  the burr of the motor, the bump of the waves, the smell of the preservers and gasoline and maybe a Canadian beer that Dad was sipping along the way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of beer, when I got older that became part of our routine.  By then were driving to Canada from Cincinnati, crossing the pine forests of Michigan as we felt the air change from Detroit industrial to the cool dryness of the Great Lakes.  We crossed the Mackinac Bridge. That was one of my first driving experiences.  Dad had acrophobia, fear of heights, that really kicked in on the seven mile stretch high over the water.  Mom didn\u2019t drive, and when we were kids Dad would stop at the bridge entrance and get a \u201cdriver\u201d to take us across.  But when I hit fifteen, I\u2019m not sure I even had a license yet, I could drive a straight line from the Lower to the Upper Peninsula.  I got to drive the international bridge into Canada as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as soon as we cleared customs, our next stop was the beer store.\u00a0\u00a0We usually bought Doran\u2019s, but there were the more traditional Canadian beers, Molson\u2019s and LaBatt\u2019s as well, and of course Canadian Whiskey. \u00a0At the time, the drinking age in Canada was eighteen, so when I was of age, we got several cases of beer to get us through two weeks. It wasn’t just for us, but for all the guests that would wander in from the path between the cabins, especially to sit by the fireplace in the evenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainy Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And what to do on a rainy day on vacation?\u00a0\u00a0It was time to \u201cexplore\u201d the island (even though we had explored it plenty of times before).\u00a0\u00a0The first stop was to go to Richard\u2019s Landing, the other \u201cmajor town\u201d (population \u2013 400).\u00a0\u00a0There you would find the tourist shop called \u201cCourtney\u2019s\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Harry Courtney was the owner, an American ex-pat, with all sorts of lurid rumors as to why he was in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0At Courtney\u2019s you could buy First American products, moccasins and clothes, as well as \u201cfamous\u201d Hudson Bay Company blankets, and Viyella shirts. Those special-blend cotton-wool shirts came in varying Scottish plaids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom, of course, knew the Scottish Clan history of each plaid, from Stewart to Black Watch.  But the plaids were adopted by families on the beach, so that the Black Watch plaid was always \u201cRansohoff\u201d plaid in my mind.  And Viyella shirts always have a special place in my heart \u2013 I\u2019m wearing my Stewart plaid (can\u2019t remember which beach family adopted that) as I write today.  They’re good for Canadian summers, and twenty-degree winters here in Ohio as well.  But Mom went to Courtney\u2019s for another reason.  Mrs. Courtney was British, and the two would always go down their shared memory lane of London and the English countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the Island<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Harry was one of Dad\u2019s boat rental sources, so some years we had to pick up a boat and take if back half-way \u2018round the island to Hilton Beach.\u00a0\u00a0But Harry\u2019s boats were notorious for breaking down, and when I was older, I found myself alone in the middle of the channel adrift, hoping I could catch a tow somewhere.\u00a0\u00a0This was all an age well before cell phones, in fact, they didn’t have phones in the cabins either.\u00a0\u00a0If you needed to make a call, there was a payphone outside the General Store.\u00a0\u00a0Eventually a fellow boater towed me to the dock at Hilton Beach \u2013 and I walked back to our rented cabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the journey to Richard\u2019s Landing, there were two more destinations on the Island.  The first was to visit another Cincinnati family, the Pritz\u2019s over on Mosquito Bay.  They were friends from Cincinnati too, but had a more \u201crustic\u201d place away from everyone else.  And after seeing them, it was off to the end of the island, and a visit to old Fort St. Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There you found the artifacts left over from the battle for the Great Lakes during the War of 1812, and learned the history of the Voyageurs, the traders who took great canoes throughout the Canadian wilderness.\u00a0\u00a0They had blankets and metal goods \u2013 pots and pans and axes \u2013 and I\u2019m sure whiskey as well to trade with the First Americans.\u00a0\u00a0And in return, they got beaver pelts, to satisfy Europe\u2019s massive need for fashionable beaver hats.\u00a0\u00a0We watched the same movie every year \u2013 about their trials and their songs, and their recipe to deter the attacking mosquitos \u2013 skunk oil and bear grease.\u00a0\u00a0After our visit, we drove home lustily singing \u201cthe Voyageur Song\u201d \u2013 in French. Who knows what we were really saying.\u00a0\u00a0 (What you could only see at old Ft. St Joe then is now on YouTube \u2013\u00a0The Voyageurs<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 warning \u2013 the song will get stuck in your head!!).<\/em>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fran <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Goldman\u2019s\u2019 lived in the middle \u2013 alongside the softball field, across from first base.  They were friends of Mom and Dad in Cincinnati as well, and I\u2019m told distant cousins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So no wonder she wasn\u2019t concerned with the cold and snow in Seattle. She swam in the cold, cold Huron waters for all of her life.\u00a0\u00a0And I\u2019m sure as she marched to her vaccination date, trudging through the snow and ice, she was humming a song, of skunk oil and bear grease, whiskey and whitewater.\u00a0\u00a0She saw the movie even more than we did \u2013 there were always a few rainy days, and she was there for most of the summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was a Hilton Beach Voyageur!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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