Be Creating

Elsa Two powerful women shaped my view of all a woman can be.  I grew up in an era when women became a secretary, a nurse or a teacher.  These were two women brave enough to work outside of the home.  One was Elsa and the other was my Aunt Evelyn. I’m not sure when I met Elsa (Elsa “Elsie” M. Dahlgren) when I was two years old.  I don’t remember the meeting, but I do remember the many nights I slept on the rough hairy couch in her living/great room while my parents and other cabin owners danced to the jukebox in the lodge connected to the living quarters. Elsa, along with her husband, Ralph, built a fishing resort on South Twin in northern Wisconsin.  Ralph passed before I was born, which played a big role in my impression of Elsa.  There was the beach cabin, the garden cabin, the big cabin, the three bedroom, the cabin on the hill and the doghouse.  The doghouse was for single men who didn’t need a kitchen and only wanted a bed.  T...