"Just south of Lake St. Croix, the widest part of the lower St. Croix River, Afton lies placidly on its western banks. Settled beginning in the 1840s by sturdy New England loggers, followed by German and Swede farmers, this tiny river town has seen little boom. Her sawmills were short-lived enterprises and even the local berry business collapsed after World War I. Relatively unspoiled by progress as she approaches the twenty-first century, Afton remains a world apart for those who love her. Combining memoir with narrative history, Afton Remembered is admirer Ed Robb's heartfelt paean to his hometown."--jacket.