We went to the Dorothy Molter Museum in Ely. She was a woman who trained to be a nurse and then decided to live on Knife Lake on the Isle of Pines. She lived in a very remote area for 54 years, most of the time by herself with no electricity or running water! She was known as the "Root Beer Lady" because she served root beer to the canoers who passed by as they traveled thru the Boundary Waters. When it became to difficult to portage the root beer in, she made her own. They said it tasted horrible but she made and sold 10,000 bottles a year!
See if you can read her sign.
This was her winter house! in the summer she slept in a tent.
Thanks for visiting us and sharing a bit about Dorothy! If you would like more details and facts about Dorothy, please visit www.rootbeerlady.com.
ReplyDeleteps. Only some people thought her root beer was horrible :)