 Its pristine lakes remain home to a couple of hundred people — mostly those left over from its heyday — and a few newcomers such as township supervisor Carrington-Atkins, who recently bought the perfectly preserved home of famed black author Charles Waddell Chesnutt.And yet, many of its houses are empty, its storefronts fallen victim to nature".In February 2019, an East Lansing radio station described Idlewild as a ghost town "due to the vacated neighborhoods