This continues a series adapted from the book, “A Port Oneida Collection,” Volume 1 of the twopart set, “Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region,” produced by Tom Van Zoeren in partnership with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear. Here we continue with the Baker Farm, at the north end of Port Oneida Road.
It would be a year after buying his farm before Fred Baker would be able to finally make the move to Port Oneida. He had his brother back on the home farm ship a horse to him in Chicago. Then he and his horse took a boat north. By the time they reached Frankfort, Fred decided that they could ride the boat no further. (“Horses are absolutely helpless on a boat,” Fred later explained.)
As his horse was young and had not yet been trained to ride, Fred mostly walked from there. “What got me was, the horse wasn’t accustomed to the lake and water. When we got to the [Glen Lake] Narrows, the waves were slappin’ in there. I had quite a time” getting the horse to cross the bridge.
