The
Jim and Lisa Tuller family’s ties to Ten Mile Lake began when Lisa was a child
vacationing at Happiness Resort on
Long
Bay
. Her parents, Tom and Louise Hay, have included their Ten Mile story in these
pages [in the Ten Mile History] as well.
After
Lisa graduated from
Iowa
State
University
in 1984, she moved to the Twin Cities
for the sole purpose of being able to spend weekends at her parents’ cabin.
She met Jim, a native of
Connecticut
transplanted to
Minnesota
, and the couple was married in 1988. After having 2 children, Beth in
1989 and Scott in 1991, they were feeling a bit crowded in the Hay cabin (Lisa
having a brother, Mike, who had 2 children with his wife Tammy; several family
dogs made up the rest of the crowd!) Jim
and Lisa purchased their own cabin on the narrows of Long Bay, next door to Ruth
and Ray Benson, and spent two summers in that cabin. In the fall of 1991, they
had an opportunity to purchase Chuck and Deana Bromley’s property next door to
Lisa’s parents. That fall, they determined that building a new cabin on the
property was the way to go and the old Bromley cabin was lifted from its
foundation and moved behind the property to neighbor Howard Thorson’s land. (Howard now uses it as a guest cottage.)
The Tullers built a log house and enjoyed that cabin as a summer home for
three years.
In
1995, Jim and Lisa had the great fortune to be able to purchase Swanson’s Bait
Shop in
Hackensack
and ditch the corporate life of the
Cities for life up north. After 2 winters in a house in
Walker
, they added on to the Ten Mile cabin
and made it their year round home.
As
of this writing, Beth and Scott Tuller have attended Walker Hackensack Akeley schools
since entering kindergarten and the family still owns the bait shop. After two
additions, the business is officially called Swanson’s Bait & Tackle &
General Store. They consider themselves incredibly blessed, living next door to
Beth and Scott’s grandparents and every day looking out on the beauty of Ten
Mile. (Winter is even better than summer!)
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