Built by rusticators pursuing the unrivaled hunting and fishing of the north woods, the Bide-a-Wee stood alone on a pond fed by a branch of the Mattawamkeag River. Hidden from the road by a seemingly endless expanse of evergreen trees, the Bide-a-Wee was almost impossible to stumble upon by mistake. On one of his fishing trips to the county, Ted Williams was rumored to have spent time at the Bide-a-Wee field-testing part of the line of fishing tackle the Red Sox legend endorsed for Sears and Roebuck.
From FERGUSON’S TRIP
The picture of the snow covered lodge is from John Holliday’s book cover.
The Bide-a-Wee Lodge in the Haynesville Woods