"My earliest actual memory has to do with water and the boat....Lights are shimmering in the water, the reflections of the stars and the moon. I am tired but not cross, just happily drugged with sleep and sun and a long weekend of fishing. I am glad to be almost home, but I look forward to other such trips. The Cradle of the Deep is well named. I lie down again and feel its gentle rocking."
In the 1980s, after retiring from a fifty-year career as a mathematics teacher and researcher, Jeanne LeCaine Agnew (1917-2000) compiled these stories and early photographs of her family's life in the 1920s and 1930s in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay), Ontario.
From the summer fishing trips in the Cradle of the Deep in her early childhood to the years spent enjoying the family's cottage, built by her father when she was seven, this memoir records her deep connection to Lake Superior's north shore. Throughout her life, she returned every summer to the cottage, which remains in the Agnew family.
