Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870206559 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Slamming screen doors at first light; sunrises that only God could orchestrate and people. Here the air seemed fresher and the sky seemed bluer." (Howard Mead, former editor of Wisconsin Trails magazine) “Slamming screen doors at first light, sunrises that only God could orchestrate, and people. The cabins and lodge were rustic and simple, perfect for Up North and so different from our home in Madison. We always stayed at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge. “With liberal doses of gratitude
By tracing the history of one resort and cabin, she recalls a time and experience that will resonate with anyone who spent their summers Up North—or wishes they had.. Along the way she preserves the spirit and cultural heritage of a vanishing era, conveying the heart of a place and the community that gathered there.Bookended by the close of the logging era and the 1970s shift to modern lake homes, condos, and Jet Skis, the 1920s to 1960s period covered in these essays represents the golden age of Northwoods camps and cabins—a time when retreats such as Wake Robin were the essence of simplicity. In a series of evocative remembrances, Mamminga takes us to Wake Robin, the cabin her grandparents built in 1929 on Big Spider Lake near Hayward, on land adjacent to Moody’s Camp. In Return to Wake Robin, Mamminga describes the familiar cadre of fishing guides casting their charm, the camaraderie and friendships among resort workers and vacationers, the call of the weekly square dance, the splash announcing a perfectly executed cannonball, the lodge as gathering place. Mamminga’s family have been rejuvenated by times together in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Five generations of Marnie O
Return to another time and place. bj Trips to the tiny town of Princeton, Wisconsin started my love of Wisconsin get-aways, but since I was a newlywed, many long years ago, trips to the North Woods captured my heart from the get-go. While my experience was very different from Marnie Mamminga's, there are many parallels. She deftly drew the car trips, fi. For anyone who has ever enjoyed Wisconsin's north woods For anyone who has ever enjoyed Wisconsin's north woods, slept in a cabin, gone to a fish fry, slept under the stars, this book is a wonderful piece of nostalgia. The style is so descriptive, you can almost smell the pines, feel the sunburn, and pull in that fish. A great gift book for a Wisconsinite who remembers th. Wonderfully nostalgic I absolutely LOVED this book. Even though it is a little before my time, I could feel time fall away while reading it. Marnie does such a wonderful job telling her story that I felt I was transported back in time to a simple more gentler place. I could hear the loons calling to each other, I could hear the raindrops