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The essay below was entered it in the "Why I Should Own the Wellston Inn" contest in 2000. The Wellston Inn is an historic inn on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Upon submission of a 500 hundred word essay and $100.00 entry fee, the Wellston Inn could be yours, provided your essay was judged the winner.

To date, a winner has not been chosen and none of the entry fees have been returned.

 


In late April, I fished the Delaware River in the Catskill Mountains. My friend, Carlo, Maggie, my Miniature Schnauzer, and I drove five hours from Boston. We were meeting Chippy D. at the West Branch Angler in Deposit, New York. You could hear the river flow from our cabin porch.

Carlo is a Day Trader whose longtime girlfriend left him. She took everything: the house, the car, the