The Yahr family has visited their log cabin in Michigan every year for the last 75 years. However, it is theirs due to a complete coincidence. The Yahr’s never intended to ever find the cabin, but they did and made it into a family tradition.
In the early to mid-1900s, William August Yahr and some of his buddies, Freck, Edson, and Godfrey, were in the upper peninsula of Michigan, on an island called Drummond Island. When, by coincidence, they stumbled upon a cabin, left abandoned by the people who built it. Since nobody lived there anymore and the land was not owned by anyone, they all bought the land and owned it together.
The Yahr’s, Freck’s, Edson’s, and Godfrey’s would all take themselves and their families up to the cabin for years to come after they owned the land. It was perfect for fishing since it was on the water, and with 25.6 acres of land, it was perfect for hunting as well. But over time 3 of the men, Freck, Edson, and Godfrey weren’t going up as much and when Freck and Godfrey both passed away, their wives sold their percentage of the land to William August.
Now owning 75% of the land at the cabin, William August, just like 2 of his friends, passed away giving all his land to William Keith, his son. William then got to work buying off the last of the land from Edson and splitting up his land to Betty Ruth Yahr. While all of this was going on, the Yahr’s still were going up to the cabin multiple times a year, hunting, fishing, relaxing, and having a getaway from regular life. Then when Betty died, land went to Williams’ son, Ron, and his two sons, Ron and Jeff, and his sister Terry.
At the cabin, the Yahr’s would take up their children, and other close family members and friends for a trip off the grid. At a cabin with no power, no plumbing, and terrible cell reception, the Yahr’s went there to relax with family, and that is what the Yahr’s have been doing at the cabin for almost 80 years.
Whether it’s going out on the water and hooking some fish, going up when it’s freezing, or driving over the lake and hunting some deer, the Yahr family will continue to go up to the cabin for 80 more years to come doing the same old things they have been doing.