The original house was built from hand-hewn oak logs cut on the property by 'Eddie' Tuonomin, a Finnish immigrant, about 1920. Later owners covered the walls with both stucco and sheet-rock as in this small downstairs room off the kitchen from which I early on removed the sheet-rock and then using a mixture of wood glue and cement along with chicken wire as a base, filled the spaces between the logs and left the logs untreated as they were originally placed. Eddie was an expert with the hewing adze leaving the logs roughly squared and somewhat smooth with the adze strokes clearly visible. The only rough faced logs were where the sheet-rockers had hacked away some of the natural sway or curve of the log in order to lay the rigidly smooth sheet-rock, This is my way of testimony to the labor of those early immigrants to this little oasis of natural wood land on the peninsula between the rivers.
