Isabel and Stuart Mace, Spring 1941
Graduation from Grinnell College


50th Anniversary, September 1991


Stuart Aitken Mace
March 31, 1919 to August 4, 1993
Photo Credit: Wayne Hill


Isabel Pfrimmer Mace
September 13, 1918 to January 26, 2006
Photo Credit: Lois Abel Harlamert


Gregory Stuart Mace
August 12, 1943 to July 26, 1986


Isabel Mace with Her Daughter, Lynne
at Toklat 1950
Photo Credit: Patrick Henry

"If I never get to heaven, I've at least been to Toklat."
– April 10, 1955, Bruce Berger

“We would take three-day trips up into the mountains and stop along the way to cook sourdough pancakes for these campers who would pay twenty-five dollars a day for accommodations and food and this incredible trip. I lived in a ghost town cabin. It was a good thing to do; it was my first taste of the unconventional possibilities of life. There were an infinite number of jobs out there – things other than what most people did. It opened up avenues of daydreaming.”

– James Taylor, 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, On his early stint as a dog sled driver on Toklat.