Vertical boards with sump oil exterior decorating coupled with lath and plaster walls, ceiling cornice, and recycled carpet, these were the shacks that dreams were made of - a remnant of the class system where a summer crib was status.

"We're off to the shack", meant you had made it.

A simple dwelling perhaps handed down, shared, or acquired after hard-earned had been scraped together to take on a second mortgage using the family home as collateral, where friendships and making memories were life's simple pleasures.

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