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Five decades of Marnie O. Mamminga's family have been rejuvenated by times jointly in Wisconsin's Northwoods. In a series of evocative remembrances, Mamminga calls for us to Wake Robin, the cabin her grandparents built in 1929 on Big Spider Lake near Hayward, on land next to Moody's Camp. Along the way, she preserves the spirit and cultural traditions of any vanishing time, conveying the heart of a location and the community that once compiled there. Bookended by the close of the logging time and the 1970s change to modern lake homes, condos, and Jet Skis, the 1920s to 1960s period protected in these essays symbolizes the golden age group of Northwoods camps and cabins - a period when retreats such as Wake Robin were the essence of ease. In Return to Wake Robin, Mamminga represents the familiar cadre of fishing manuals casting their allure, the camaraderie and friendships among holiday resort personnel and vacationers, the decision of the every week square boogie, the splash announcing a perfectly carried out cannonball, and the lodge as gathering place. By tracing the annals of one holiday resort and cabin, she recalls a period and experience that will resonate with anyone who put in their summers Up North - or hopes they had.
