Muskoka Memories
Welcome to the Muskoka of our dreams, and the magical childhood we all remember when we’re feeling mellow. The music of piano and violin drift across the water from the fantail of The Sagamo, steaming sturdily past the distant mouth of the bay. Wavelets chuckle through the crib-work of the dock. The family launch heaves gently at her moorings in the dim, green light of the boathouse. The wind sighs through the pines and sings in the trailing branches of the big elm-trees. The striped canvas hammock sways gently to and fro. The sparkling waters dazzle your vision, and your eyes slowly close. An illustrated copy of Anne of Green Gables, or a Hardy Boys adventure, or a Nancy Drew mystery, or perhaps a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs or Zane Grey, falls to your chest, and you snooze away the golden afternoon.
Miss Bennett tells it like it was – if you were fortunate enough to be a child in Muskoka in the days when the passenger ships steamed the lakes, mothers wore stockings and cooked meals from scratch, and fathers played baseball on Sunday afternoons.
“Childhood days in Muskoka … The 1940s and 1950s are gone, but, like the slap of Harper Lee’s screen door in To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Bennett’s photos and memories of Muskoka and its sparkling waters evoke a time remembered.”
James Louis Heap, Author, Everybody’s Canada
“A wonderful lyrical addition to the history of a Muskoka that no longer exists”
James Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Author, Out of Muskoka and Raisin Wine
“A thoroughly engaging autobiography of an observant and reflective little girl”
Jamie Griggs Tevis, Author, My Life with the Hustler
Co-author, Pickin’ Fleas
“The best d----d book about childhood in Muskoka that I ever read.”
Robert W. Bennett, Author, An Extraordinary Life,
Bindle Stiff: Autobiography of a Super Hobo
"Through storytelling, folklore and anecdotes Christine Bennett paints the portrait of a luminous Muskoka, and of sparkling waters traveled by disappearing propeller boats. Rising out of the mist on the lakes is a vision of Muskoka’s humble roots and brilliant natural beauty that takes us beyond the current glitz and glamour."
Jennifer Cobb, Author, Cumulative Worth, Contributor, Three Ring Circus, and Far From Home
“The texture of a Muskoka childhood”
“An era in Muskoka’s history”
The Hub Restaurant serves up good food, and better gossip. The policeman is a resident of the Indian Reservation. A disappearing cocktail waitress leads Jake into a life of crime, he saves the life of a mysterious red-haired beauty, and a gorgeous hairdresser offers to give him a close shave with her father's straight razor. Jake want to fit in, and be one of the regulars at The Hub Restaurant. The local residents are people he would like to have as his friends and neighbours... Except that one of them is trying to kill people! 
