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This Castle in Tomahawk Has Been 30 Years in the Making
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:05:32
Publish Date: 2019-05-17 05:00:00
Description: We continue our We Live Up Here series this week with a story about an ambitious DIY project that has been 30 years in the making. The story comes in response to a listener question to our Curious North series. Dennis Marquardt from Tomahawk asks: What is up with the castle on Killarney Lake? Jim Skibo has the story. The fog lifts over Killarney Lake and Kelley Arms Castle appears on a rise. Are we on a tour of castles in Ireland? Nope. We are in Oneida County just north of Tomahawk. The castle is a three-decade long do-it-yourself project for Pete Kelley, who lives in Wausau but commutes each weekend during the warm months to the shore of Killarney Lake. He first got the idea to build a castle when he was a teenager. While other boys his age were dreaming of playing quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, Pete was making sketches of castles. According to Pete, by age 19 he decided to build the caste. In 1987, he started clearing the land, surveying, putting in water and the septic
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