Listening Point

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Listening Point acquired its name in the spring of 1958, when Sigurd's daughter-in-law Yvonne arrived for a visit from the Middle East, where Robert Olson served as a U.S. Foreign Service officer. Hiking around the property with Sigurd, and hearing him tell what the point meant to him, Yvonne was struck by a similarity with the diplomatic community in Libya. Benghazi was referred to as a listening post, from which U.S. diplomats could stay in touch with the ebb and flow of life along the northern coast of Africa. She told her father-in-law that the point, as he described it, seemed like a listening post for the wilderness. Yvonne's comment led to the name of Sigurd's second book, and from then on the Olson property on Burntside Lake was known as Listening Point.