THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 2, 2011
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by Mal Fuller Contributing Writer
Coming up in early June,
is an annual event that I always look forward to and enjoy. It is the North Woods Camp Old Timer’s night, now held at the Bayside Grill & Tavern, a restaurant that is located on 51 Mill Street in Wolfeboro. As loyal readers know, I am an alumnus of North Woods Camp, to which I went each summer beginning in 1951. I was a camper there for eight enjoyable summers. I learned how to swim at North Woods, a real accom- plishment for me because I was completely unsuited to be a swimmer. Before a camper could go to the camp’s (little) Pine Island for an overnight camping trip, he had to pass the “red buoy test”. This required that he be able to swim to shore from the red buoy that is out in the Lake in front of the camp’s lake- front. Eventually, I passed the buoy test. North Woods Camp is beautifully situated op- posite Cow Island on Lake Winnipesaukee in Tufton-
shire’s north and south Presidential Mountain Ranges, which are in the White Mountain National Forest. There was also a 5-day trip through the Pemigewasset Wilderness where the trail often fol- lows the roadbed of a long defunct logging railroad. Also, there was a 5-day canoe trip on the Saco River. Actually, now that I think about it, I didn’t go to North Woods as much as I thought, but instead I was somewhere else here in New Hampshire! The Old Timers have a
Here’s the late Roger B. Smith, Diablo’s predecessor. He left this world at age 20, in 2003. Roger didn’t suffer fools very well, but he was a damned nice pussycat just the same. Somehow, he has passed some of his tricks on to Diablo!
boro. My favorite activity at camp was the overnight camping trips that kept me out of camp for up to 5-days. The 5-day trips in- cluded hiking New Hamp-
Enjoy the Scenic Beauty of
pretty good time during their get-togethers. People really don’t change all that much over a half century I find. Faded memories return during the course of a meal and by the time I return home I’m posi- tively soggy with nostalgia! (Just nostalgia, no beer for the last 5 years!) Unfortu- nately, Malzy can’t attend
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