OVER 100 YEARS ON WILDWOOD HARBOR

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Wallooner James Wallace was a true Renaissance man: he served in both WWI and WWII, was named a commander in the U.S. Navy, spent forty years as a dedicated pediatrician and even wrote poetry. He and his wife Fran had two daughters, Jean and Barbara. The sisters attended Oberlin College; Jean studied music while Barbara majored in art appreciation. Jean then married John

McAuliffe and had five children. Barbara married Bud Wezerek and raised three children. Both sisters brought their children up to cherish Treetops, their "heaven on earth" on Walloon.

The large porch of Treetops, designed for viewing those spectacular Walloon sunsets, is the center of family life here. Inside the cottage is a veritable treasure trove of Walloon memorabilia, not just decades of fascinating family photos, but also vintage maps, scrapbooks filled with articles about Walloon, land abstracts dating to 1883 and correspondence with Ben Ellis.

Treetops is now owned and amicably shared by five siblings and cousins. Their children and grandchildren represent the sixth and seventh generations of the Wezerek/McAuliffe family, a family still brought together by Walloon 123 years after Henry and Augusta Adams first set foot here.