E.B White, the author of "Stuart Little" and "Charlotte's Web," also wrote the personal essay "Once More to the Lake" in which he explores the relationship between a father and his son.
             The essay starts off with a father talking about his experiences as a child camping with his father in 1904 on a lake in Maine. When telling the story, he remembers the feelings he once had as a child while camping and decides to relive them again. He is now a father who has a child himself who he decides to bring along because he thought this would be a great experience.
             On his way to Maine, the father wonders how much different the "holy spot" may be and if he still will love the place like he used to. After settling into a camp near a farmhouse and getting that summer feeling, he thought things couldn't be much different. The next morning he and his son went fishing. He felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly on the tip of the rods as it hovered over the water. The arrival of the dragonfly convinced the father even more that everything was as it had always been. They both sat their while fishing and the father looks over to the boy staring quietly and sees that it is his hands that is holding the rod and his eyes watching the water. He is confused and feeling dizzy and doesn't know which rod he was at the end of.
             Later that night, they went back up to the farmhouse for dinner. There had always been three tracks to choose from, but now their were only two-tracks to choose from. Even though at first he missed the middle track, he was reassured by the tennis courts and something about the way the sun shone on the tracks. At the farmhouse the waitresses were the same country girls, the only difference was that they had washed their hair and they had been to the movies and seen the pretty girls with clean hair.
             He later goes into explaining that now in 1941 they have different types of boats than the...