Women’s Weekend at Pemi Returns for 2025
Last September, something special unfolded in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Sixty-two women ranging in age from mid-20s to mid-70s gathered at Camp Pemigewassett—not as parents, not as staff, not as plus-ones but for themselves. Now, we’re thrilled to say: registration for Women’s Weekend 2025 is open—and we’d love for you to join us. […]
Meet Pemi’s 2021 Staff!
Camp Pemi’s staff for the 2021 season is stacked with veterans eager to bring their energy, experience, and wisdom to this historic summer.
Opening Days of 2021
Newsletter #1 Welcome to the first newsletter of Camp Pemigewassett’s 114th season. Some might argue it’s our 113th, since we weren’t able to open for our regular camper sessions in 2020. We did host our inaugural (and socially-distanced) Family Camp over a five-week stretch last summer, though, so we’re officially going with 114. If this […]
Sleepaway Camp: Expense…or Investment?
Is summer camp an expense or an investment? Parents unfamiliar with the tradition of sleepaway camp might consider the cost and reasonably ask, “Why send my child away when the community center has a pool and tennis courts?” Simply put, the character traits that children strengthen and develop as they navigate life in a unique […]
Kenny Moore Promoted To Director
The Pemi Board of Directors, together with Danny Kerr, are thrilled to announce that Kenny Moore will be joining Danny as fellow Director, effective immediately. Kenny’s much-deserved promotion marks the final step of a management plan that was conceived several years ago in order to bolster Pemi’s top leadership for decades to come. Danny reports, […]
#8: Final Toast and Clive Bean’s Review
2019 Newsletter # 8 Pemigewassett Newsletter Number 8, 2019 Incredibly, Pemi’s 112th season is now officially out of the planning calendar and into the history books. It was a wonderful summer by any measure you care to apply, among our sentimental favorites being the verve and volume with which singing in the mess hall was […]
#7: Setting the Standard
2019 Newsletter Number 7 [This week’s letter comes from Associate Director Kenny Moore] On Tuesday, August 6, two visitors from the American Camp Association (ACA) spent the day at Camp Pemigewassett as part of our regular accreditation process. Every five years, we host an official visit to share our policies and procedures with the ACA. […]
#6: Tecumseh Day through the Lens of a Camera
Pemigewassett Newsletter #6 This week’s newsletter comes, as promised, from Charlie Malcolm. A history teacher and head coach of the boy’s varsity soccer team at the Northfield-Mt. Hermon School in the off-season, Charlie has been our Athletic Director for close to three decades. His ability to motivate Pemi coaches and teams to be keen, well-prepared […]
#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 […]