It's a little college town on Lake Nadonis, about twelve miles inland from Lake Michigan, and perhaps sixty miles north of Chicago on the big bluffs that line the shore nearly all the way to Milwaukee.
Uncle Cassius was a first settler there, I believe.

You don't have to be very old to have been a first settler in Wisconsin.

I think about the first thing he helped establish there was Hope College.

I don't remember so very much about it, girls, it was so long ago.

I know I loved the bluffs and the little winding paths that led up from the shore below, but it seems to me Uncle Cassius' house was rather cheerless and formal.