5 fascinating things: Friday, October 20th

Wisconsin butter fires, New York castles, Chicago's ancient baths.

Howdy, y’all. I’m writing this to you from the past—it’s currently Tuesday, and I’m at Stout’s Island Lodge in Birchwood, WI. New York has the Adirondack Great Camps—Rockefeller-built luxe cabin resorts, essentially—but the Upper Midwest has its version, too. This is one of them: You take a ferry across Red Cedar Lake, land at the boathouse, and the boa…