Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts Audiobook, by Marnie O. Mamminga Play Audiobook Sample

Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts Audiobook

Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts Audiobook, by Marnie O. Mamminga Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Susan Sweeney Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780870209710

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

8

Longest Chapter Length:

77:24 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

41:38 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Five generations of Marnie O. Mamminga’s family have been rejuvenated by times together in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. In a series of evocative remembrances accompanied by a treasure trove of vintage family photos, 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. 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 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. 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.

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