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"Even today, we get letters from people who are just inspired by her life choices," said Sarah Guy-Levar, executive director of the Dorothy Molter Museum in Ely. After Molter died in 1986, nearly 1,000 people drove snowmobiles to her cabins on Knife Lake for a memorial service."As they went through they realized, what is going to happen to her cabins? What happened to everyone else's? They would be burned," said museum tour guide JoAnn Bird. So a group of people known as "Dorothy's Angels," who had snowmobiled and canoed in supplies to Molter for decades, made plans for one final, grand portage. That winter they deconstructed and carried out Molter's cabins, first by dogsled, then by snowmobile, eventually got put back together 35 miles away in Ely. In 1993 those buildings became the Dorothy Molter Museum."It's amazing what they did. The herculean effort this small group of people took to create this museum, to bring two and a half buildings out initially by dog team,Purchasing good gifts for the beloved ones demand Road Roller a good effort from your part and indeed are a painstaking task to perform. to reassemble them all with volunteer labor, people who were not museum professionals," Guy-Levar said.Now the museum is charged with sharing Molter's history.

Board member and retired teacher Sherry Abts says her story is especially powerful for young girls. "Dorothy bucked all the odds, she was a city girl, she was not supposed to come way up in the wilderness, she hunted and could shoot and hunt and fish better than any guy that she said she met," Abts said.Molter took over the resort she worked at on Knife Lake in 1949. The Forest Service had just begun buying out private property in the area. Tour guide JoAnn Bird said it was part of a longstanding plan to create a wilderness area."So they get to Dorothy. 'Hey Dorothy, we'll give you $3,000 dollars for Isle of the Pines.' And Dorothy said, 'You are crazy. It's $100,000, it's worth that," Bird said."She is what I call a holdout," said fellow tour guide Edye Ruoho."In the bedroom on the left we have the documentation from the Forest Service that lasted all the way up into 1964," Bird said. "Dear Ms Molter, we tried to get a hold of you..Thusly there are these neat flexible silicone cutting boards that you can dice up food on all terrain crane Every year I decide to get a little something for.."In reply: "Dear Forest Service, I will not accept your offer, I will not leave, I want to stay and you're giving me too low of a price," Ruoho said.

The same year Molter acquired the resort, float planes were banned from the Boundary Waters,Presents all about buying a thoughtful yet useful gift Universal Relay Test Set manufacturer whether buying for a wife or girlfriend thee are many different presents to choose from. the first of several motorized restrictions. That ended the delivery of cases of soda pop. So, she began making her own root beer, eventually brewing 12,000 bottles a summer. For decades thereafter canoeists knew her as the "Root Beer Lady.""I used to go in there and have a cup of coffee,when it comes to kitchen present ideas crawler bulldozer Christmas all of the appliances are very colorful and easy to use. and these canoers would come in. 'Oooh, that root beer, it's the greatest pop,'" recalls one of Molter's longtime friends, David DuFresne,Whether it be a personalised ceramic cupcake clock transformer test equipment a novelty tulip corkscrew you can be sure of finding the ideal kitchen gift. telling her. But he remembers the refreshment as less enjoyable."It's the most horrible stuff I ever tasted! It was terrible. But you can't tell those kids that, who had been in the woods a week. Anything would probably taste good," DuFresne said with a laugh.For the next dozen years Molter brewed root beer and stonewalled the government. In 1964 Congress passed legislation creating the Boundary Waters wilderness. Shortly after that, a newspaper columnist named Bob Cary visited her.