#5: Utopia Reconsidered
2019 Pemi Newsletter #5 There we sport on land and water, Far from Eve’s disturbing daughter (Though perhaps we hadn’t oughter.) – From “Pemi,” by Dudley B. Reed Women have been central to Camp Pemigewassett from the beginning, but their roles have happily evolved since our founding in 1908. Truth to tell, they were […]
#4: Dr. Larry Davis: Reflections on 50 Years at Pemi
2019 Newsletter #4 This week’s newsletter comes from Larry Davis. We’ll let him introduce himself and the occasion, but it goes without saying that reminiscences from Pemi staff about a half century of service to camp are a real rarity. We can’t think of a more appropriate topic for one of our weekly communiqués. Fifty […]
#3: Trail Magic
Pemi Newsletter #3, 2019 Well, we’ve been busy. Take Saturday. At roughly 7 A.M., a group of campers joined Associate Nature Head Deb Kure in manning the local rest and refreshment stop on the bicycle route for the 38th Annual Prouty charity challenge. (The event, featuring multiple forms of fund-raising crowd participation, benefits cancer research […]
#2: Trips, July 4th, Vaudeville…
Pemi Newsletter #2, 2019 Hello, once again from Camp Pemigewassett, where we are now over a week into the 2019 season. Despite an unusually wet spring in northern New England, our weather so far has been fantastic: warm, sunny days, punctuated by spectacular sunsets, fading into cool, star-lit nights. Lower Baker Pond, which three weeks […]
#1: Welcome to 2019! Meet our staff…
Pemi Newsletter #1, 2019 Greetings from Wentworth, New Hampshire, where a gentle northwest breeze is wafting down the pond under partly cloudy skies. Birds are singing. Boys are laughing. Pianist Taiko Pelick is rehearsing a Mozart piano sonata in the Lodge. Pemi 2019 has been in full swing only since yesterday afternoon (as we write […]