Definitely check out the museum upstairs at the country store. It's been a few years since I've been up there but as I remember they had a lot of artifacts including the building itself (early 1700s).
I agree, there's an innocence lost as the outside world takes up more residence in the lakes region. I think in this case it's two factors... first, the area's population is up. So if you had 1 criminal when the population was 100, (just an example) you'd have 2 criminals if the population rose to 200. Yet the headline would read, "Crime has doubled" without also noting that the population had doubled. Readers would be left to think that something was wrong when in reality it was just mathematics.
Second, until just a few months ago, we were in an "age of excess" in which a lot of kids around here probably got snowmobiles for Christmas. The next thing you know, they were probably looking for some sort of trouble to cause, like groups of kids often do when they hang out. Up until a few years ago they didn't have as many material possessions to aid them in their quest for rule-breaking. Until a few years ago they also didn't grow up with teams of counselors reminding them that nothing is ever their fault... therefore they had a greater fear of consequences than the current generation.
That's just my guess...
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