As she grew up, Jenny chose jobs that continued to take her into the backcountry, and even her marriage began with life in a tipi. All the while her connection with the Great Lakes remained strong: “After many adventures in different parts of the country, I found my spirit being called back to the Northwoods and Great Lakes of my childhood.” Today, Jenny lives in a self-built strawbale cabin on her homestead near Lake Superior, where she strives to integrate ecological design and sustainable living techniques into her daily life. “It is from all the quiet and crazy, the powerful and tender times along this path that the stories and tunes for my songs have sprung.”

Such unique life experiences have inspired an equally unique collection of songs, with touches of sound effects such as loon calls, wolves howling, birds, frogs, and even a lighthouse foghorn. These sound effects were recorded in her family's travels and on her homestead. Her vocals and acoustic guitar are accompanied here and there by mouth harp, flute, skin drum, castanets, and ocarina.

--You can almost touch the wood lilies and smell the balsam as Jenny travels with Anna Hoge to Passage Island on this lightkeeper's daughter's first return to the island that was her home more than 40 years before. Stroll through the moss and lichens of the island's enchanted forest and hear the foghorn calling to fog-enshrouded ships rumbling by.

--Ride with Jenny and her family in an aging, underpowered VW camper as they bounce down wild roads exploring the Great Lakes. Smell the overheating engine and hear the diesel clatter, but through it all savor the Northcountry landscape and the “kind folks who helped us, each time that old VW died.”

--Or “run to the ridgetop” and “glide o'er the waves” of Lake Superior as Jenny celebrates the greatest of the Great Lakes.