Emily Dickinson often visited the northwoods

It is not widely known that homebody poet Emily Dickinson was a great visitor to the northwoods as a teen, when her family vacationed there. And many feel her poem "Oh Chipmunk" was inspired by happy memories of her time in a lake cabin with a view of Lake Superior.

Oh Chipmunk!

A chipmunk went out on a log,

At three in the afternoon,

what dance and foot and happy play,

promised in its ruin.

There is not frolic still enough,

Nor heart so still and thin,

That chipmunk cannot harmonize,

All toil and joy and spin.