Barefoot on Crane Island

By Marjorie Myers Douglas

Book Overview

Writer Marjorie Douglas recalls her idyllic, fun-filled summer days on Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka in the 1920s when she and her two brothers spent long hours swimming, diving off the dock and from the ten-foot-high tower, slipping out of the house after dark for excursions with their friends, and exploring the island from end to end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873513630
• ISBN13: 9780873513630
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A beautiful and touching memoir of midwestern life 1920's

I love this book. I've heard this author speak. She published her first book "Eggs in the Coffee and Sheep in the Corn" in her early eighties. She won the Minnesota Book Award and received rave literay reviews for that book. This is her second book and it is as good as the first. She herself is filled with energy and joy - so are her writings. In her mid-eighties she is an inspiration on how life should be led - both intellectually and physically. I am in my early fifties and she is living proof that I have decades ahead to look forward to.