Adventure on the Allagash
2016 Newsletter # 6 [This week’s communiqué comes from Director of Athletics Charlie Malcolm.] Each summer I am asked to write a newsletter on Tecumseh Day. This year, our boys from Pemigewassett ran into a very deep, talented, and well coached Tecumseh camp and lost the day 5-14-1. The shining exception to the general order […]
A Look at Pemi’s Day-to-Day Nature Program
2016 Newsletter # 5 by Larry Davis, Director of Pemi’s Nature Program In years past, I have used the opportunity to write a newsletter as a chance to wax philosophic about the importance of getting children out into nature, about the excitement of some of our special activities (such as caving), or about the history […]
Sunday Meeting: Reflections on Al Fauver
2016 Newsletter # 4 How it happened so quickly we don’t know, but today we reach the mid-point of the 2016 season. While the eighty-five full-session boys plunge and slither at the Whale’s Tale water park in nearby North Woodstock, their eighty-five cabin mates call an end to their season and return to their homes […]
Let Freedom Ring (at camp and from every mountaintop)
2016: Newsletter # 2 Pemi celebrated America’s two-hundred-and-fortieth birthday on a flawlessly beautiful day. The strong westerly breeze that had dominated our weather on the 2nd and the 3rd (even forcing Saturday’s campfire indoors) had dropped away overnight. Dawn found Lower Baker mirror-smooth, with wispy wraiths of mist weaving their slow way down the pond. Following reveille, […]
Let the 2016 Season Begin!
2016: Newsletter #1 Welcome to the first newsletter of the 2016 season, Pemi’s 109th. Camp has been in session since Saturday, June 25th, and as we sit here on the morning of June 27th, everything is in full swing. It’s a beautiful summer day – blue skies, gentle breeze from the east, temperature pushing 75 […]
Introducing Pemi’s 2016 Staff
Each pre-season we ask our staff members to submit a short bio for this first blog post of the season. Introducing Pemi’s 2016 staff… Danny Kerr (Director): This will be my 7th year as Director at Pemi and my 44th at summer camp and I’m only 29! This fuzzy math aside, I am looking forward […]
Betsy Mook Reed, May 15, 1917 – June 13, 2016
We want to pass along the word that Betsy Reed died Monday afternoon, June 13th, in Carlisle Pennsylvania. Tom and Dottie were at her side as she made the peaceful crossing. She had just turned 99, “nearly a hundred.” The sadness of the news is tempered by the fact that Betsy had enjoyed a long and […]
Links to Articles and Videos of Interest
Every so often we scroll through Pemi’s Facebook page to gather in one place all the links to articles and videos that have been posted over the previous months to make for easy binge reading/watching. However you choose to approach the list of links—clicking and absorbing all in one sitting, parcelling them over a few days, or picking and […]
AP Cites Pemi in Two Stories
Camp Pemigewassett in the News… We like to think that with over 100 years of experience, Camp Pemigewassett has come to learn a thing or two. How especially nice for two Associated Press writers to consider Pemi as a resource for topics near and dear to us and to our camp parents, and for their […]
Cans From Campers: A Community Service Effort
Let’s Start a New “Season of Giving” with Cans From Campers In June 2015, Camp Pemigewassett launched Cans from Campers, a food drive on the opening day of our season, an initiative in response to a growing interest in community service among our campers. Our focus was timely. We learned through the process that food pantries suffer […]
Some Things Old and Some Things New
Pemi’s Nature Program Introduction If longtime Nature Head (from 1927-1969) Clarence Dike were to walk into the Nature Lodge today, he would find many things familiar and many things that were not. Over the years, I have written about novel ways in which we’ve expanded the program. Here, however, I want to highlight some of the ways […]
Wrapping up 2015: A Chief, a Toast, and Clive Bean
Hello to one and all from the slightly muggy precincts of the Baker Valley, where true summer weather seems to be making a belated but assertive appearance. We’ve yet to deploy our Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome over the Pond and switch on the air, but the thought has obviously occurred to us. It seems impossible that […]