Popular photographer Doug Ohman and renowned writer and poet Bill Holm highlight the states unique and treasured cabinsa vintage Fredenberg Lake compound near Duluth; the celebrated mom-and-pop Fairyland Cabins of Detroit Lakes; a cabin situated on top of a pontoon in Rose Lake. Holms eclectic prose combines stories of the ancient and new and illuminates the rewards of the cabin life: the pleasures of fishing, daydreaming, sunset watching and star counting, the leisure to take stock of ones life without the surround-sound noise of the new wired century. In a cabin retreat, he writes, pleasure overcomes duty for a little while. is a photographer and acclaimed public speaker. His photographs are featured in the Minnesota Byways series, which includes and (all MHS Press). is the author of several books of essays and poetry and teaches at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.