The Guest Lodge has belonged to one family since before it existed. These are the people
who built it, kept it, and are being raised to carry it on — from Fred Logan Bull,
who crossed the lake by canoe to clear the land, to the three boys of the fourth
generation learning the place the way everyone before them did: barefoot, on the dock.
The whole story is on our
About page, and the construction of the Lodge is told in photographs
on Building the Lodge. Click any photo to see it large.
The generations
Fred Logan Bull (1902–1986) — the first generation, who built the Lodge — on Santa Claus Lake in his canoe; Red, his son Robert’s dog, minding the bow.Laura Isabel “Betty” Bull (1904–1990), Fred’s wife. By every account a remarkable, lovely lady, loved by all who knew her: a champion athlete in both high school and college, and a nutritionist by training. She stained every wall of the Lodge.Fred and Betty Bull — the first generation — with their grandchildren Robert Alan (Rob) and Laura Bull, the third.Robert Logan Bull (1931–2008) — the second generation — on Santa Claus Lake with his dog Red: the same day as Fred’s photo, the same canoe.Robert Logan Bull with Robert Alan Bull in his lap.Robert Logan and Carol Bull with Rob and his sister Laura — who today owns the Homestead and its big red barn, a quarter mile out Lake Drive, where the two of them grew up.Rob and Beth Bull — the third generation — with their American Mastiffs, Isabelle and Georgiana. Their three boys, Robbie, Nathan, and Teddy, are the fourth generation.The fourth generation — Robbie, Nathan, and Teddy Bull — riding their quads over to see Chris and Ashirah at the Maine Local Living School.The Bull Family Cemetery, on the property. If you would like to see it: take the woods road directly across from Clear Stream Road on Lake Drive, walk up about a thousand feet past the Bull family Tree Farm sign, and you will walk right into it.Robert Logan Bull — June 17, 1931 to February 26, 2008 — rests here.Stephen (Steve) R. Bull, 1955–2009, Rob and Laura’s half-brother: “He made our world a better place.”Robbie, Nathan, and Teddy — helmets still on from the ride — visiting their grandfather Robert Logan Bull and their uncle Steve.
