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193:, Les Blacklock referred to her as a hunter, electrician, trapper, canoeist, back-road world traveler, carpenter, beaver skinner, woodcutter, story teller, farmer, dogsled musher, naturalist, zoologist, neighbor helper, stranger helper, poet, telephone lineman, artist, poet, mechanic, newspaper columnist, and lodge builder and operator.
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This is a book about life in the area around the
Gunflint Lodge starting in the late 1920s and her participation in it. This includes the lives of wilderness residents such as Chippewa families and trappers. The book also covers the development and operation of the lodge and her family's activities
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circa 1928. Spunner majored in zoology, minored in philosophy and chemistry, played soccer and volleyball, and joined the Outing Club at
Northwestern. She planned to go to medical school and become a doctor. She graduated with a degree in zoology and finished one year of graduate study before moving
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Spunner brought her daughter, Justine, up with her when she was considering purchase of the resort from Dora Blankenburg. While the two women discussed and finalized the matter, Justine took her first canoe trip with someone who was a college friend and a guide. They went down
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Kerfoot, the son of Hamline University's president, whose foreign service ambitions were dashed in the Depression camped on a beach, desperate for work. Justine offered him room and board in exchange for resort work. In 1934 she married Bill Kerfoot. They had three children: Neal
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Chippewa Indian families who lived north of the lodge on the Canadian border. They helped each other, traveled in the wilderness together, attended each other's celebrations and transacted business. They taught her wilderness skills.
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her family lost almost everything except for the lodge. They moved to the lodge which had no plumbing or electricity. Justine learned how to put the plumbing in herself. She also learned how to mush sled dogs, repair cars, fix telephone lines, build furniture, and fur trapping.
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families who lived north of the lodge on the
Canadian border. After five years of associating with them they trusted her. They helped each other, attended each other's celebrations and transacted business. They taught her wilderness skills.
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At the time of the purchase it was five cabins plus small lodge building with a store carrying supplies for the
Indians and fishing tackle for the guests, plus a dining room to serve meals. She developed friendships with numerous
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Gunflint Lodge related to operation of the lodge, and visiting and traveling with the residents of the forest including
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area. She was the author of two published books and co-authored a third. She also wrote a column, "On the
Gunflint Trail", that ran weekly for 42 years in the
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from 1965 to 1968, serving as chair in 1968. She was unhappy about the extension of the
Gunflint Trail to Saganaga Lake via a toll road on private property.
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until she was 90 years old. Her canoe is on display at the Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center. She died on May 30, 2001, at age 94, having visited the
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