Lake childhood memories

Aunt Lula · 02-19-2020, 03:18 PM

We spent our summers on Loon Island on Lake Wentworth. Learned to swim at age 3-4. Spend endless hours with my sister catching crawfish and minnows. Swimming every day, rain or shine. Canoeing around the Seven Sisters and Stamp Act Islands. One summer our goal was to swim around Stamp Act Island which we did several times with an inner tube in case we got tired. I can still smell those big black inner tubes! Listening for the loons at night. Frequent trips into Wolfeboro for groceries and of course ice cream!

Mr. V · 02-19-2020, 04:12 PM

Spent a couple weeks every summer at our camp at Lake Shore Park.

Loved the sandy beach, and playing the juke box at the pavilion.

Disliked having to walk to the pavilion in the morning to fill a water jug from the old-timey pump to get our drinking water.

Hated going to the bathroon in the "pazoozie:" stand alone common toilets filled with spiders and peep holes in the walls.

Andromeda321 · 02-19-2020, 05:39 PM

Franken Sundae where Town Docks is today with its make your own sundae bar. We went once a year and I loved that place so much I literally wrote my "how I spent my summer vacation" essay about it more than once.

We were on Blackeys Cove from when I was about 10, about a mile from Center Harbor, so it was a huge summer thing that I could bike into town! (Grew up in a nice corner of suburbia where you couldn't go anywhere sans car, so this was a special bit of freedom.) I would bike every morning to Robinson's General Store to buy a newspaper for my parents and a muffin for myself for breakfast. Reading the headlines about the Monica Lewinsky trial remain in my mind so I guess that tells people how old I am. Bayswatter Books also had a weekly "book club" Wednesday mornings in summer for kids, so we'd head over for that. No Internet at the lake, but you could reserve an hour of Internet on the days the Center Harbor library was open, so that was a lot of high school.

There was an awful noisy boat one year on Blackeys where the guy basically gutted the muffler and was noisy to annoy everyone, but was smart enough to only joyride a few minutes so he'd be off the lake by the time the Marine Patrol showed up. The day they finally caught him you could hear everyone cheering all around the cove. Solidarity!

02-19-2020, 03:18 PM	#1
Aunt Lula Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Fairfield, CT Posts: 23 Thanks: 5 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	We spent our summers on Loon Island on Lake Wentworth. Learned to swim at age 3-4. Spend endless hours with my sister catching crawfish and minnows. Swimming every day, rain or shine. Canoeing around the Seven Sisters and Stamp Act Islands. One summer our goal was to swim around Stamp Act Island which we did several times with an inner tube in case we got tired. I can still smell those big black inner tubes! Listening for the loons at night. Frequent trips into Wolfeboro for groceries and of course ice cream! __________________

02-19-2020, 04:12 PM	#2
Mr. V Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: the left coast (Portland)and West Alton Posts: 1,395 Thanks: 63 Thanked 256 Times in 174 Posts	Spent a couple weeks every summer at our camp at Lake Shore Park. Loved the sandy beach, and playing the juke box at the pavilion. Disliked having to walk to the pavilion in the morning to fill a water jug from the old-timey pump to get our drinking water. Hated going to the bathroon in the "pazoozie:" stand alone common toilets filled with spiders and peep holes in the walls. __________________ basking in the benign indifference of the universe

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02-19-2020, 05:39 PM	#3
Andromeda321 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 80 Thanks: 17 Thanked 32 Times in 19 Posts	Franken Sundae where Town Docks is today with its make your own sundae bar. We went once a year and I loved that place so much I literally wrote my "how I spent my summer vacation" essay about it more than once. We were on Blackeys Cove from when I was about 10, about a mile from Center Harbor, so it was a huge summer thing that I could bike into town! (Grew up in a nice corner of suburbia where you couldn't go anywhere sans car, so this was a special bit of freedom.) I would bike every morning to Robinson's General Store to buy a newspaper for my parents and a muffin for myself for breakfast. Reading the headlines about the Monica Lewinsky trial remain in my mind so I guess that tells people how old I am. Bayswatter Books also had a weekly "book club" Wednesday mornings in summer for kids, so we'd head over for that. No Internet at the lake, but you could reserve an hour of Internet on the days the Center Harbor library was open, so that was a lot of high school. There was an awful noisy boat one year on Blackeys where the guy basically gutted the muffler and was noisy to annoy everyone, but was smart enough to only joyride a few minutes so he'd be off the lake by the time the Marine Patrol showed up. The day they finally caught him you could hear everyone cheering all around the cove. Solidarity!