Lake Contrary : Days of Glory, 1880-1964

by Clyde Weeks

Lake Contrary tells of the development of one of the midwest's early resorts. From it's development in the 1880's by the light and power company as a means to selling more electricity to its closing as an amusement park in the early 1960s, Lake Contrary was a leisure center for gentry and working people. Summer houses, vaudeville and traveling acts, yacht and horse races, carnivals and rides—Lake Contrary was simply the place to be thousands for many decades.

118 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 1992