On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was so common > for the "women and children" to go for the summer holiday for four or more > weeks, and the "man of the house" to join them for a much briefer period. This is not just an Indian thing. It is traditional in Canada to have a "cottage" or "cabin" at the lake, and there are so many lakes that even people of very modest means can often manage to have one. These are passed down in families. When I was working at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, there was this guy on my team who'd married into a family where a bunch of sisters had cabins near Parry Sound (http://g.co/maps/9hu46) - most of these women were traditional full-time Moms, and in Summer, would decamp with the kids en masse for the cabin. Their husbands would drive 5 hours up to the cabin to spend the weekends, when they could. -T
