Family Mystery - Appeal to Winnipesaukee Long-Timers

[Bear Guy]

I'm going to use the mountain view for my clues. I annotated the picture below with my guess. If that one peak is really Chocorua, that says the 'umbrella' view is pretty much north, and it narrows down the swath of the lake to a vertical swath generally around Three Mile Island. Then I also derive that the cabin more or less points east.
Playing around in Google Earth, I can get that mountain profile from Pine Island, and the Hawk's Nest Island fits the image too (that's the island off Three Mile main dock).

[Nautique2001]

Originally Posted by Bear Guy

If that one peak is really Chocorua...

That was my thought! If only we could move that pole and clear the haze. Pinning Chocorua would help sort it out.

[webmaster]

If it's helpful, the late great DCR created a series of fantastic annotated pictures of the surrounding mountain ranges and posted them on our Photopost gallery in 2005-2010.

If you want to see all 9 of them go to Photopost and search for "annotated". Also check out some of the other 1427 pictures he posted. DCR was a busy member.

[LIforrelaxin]

So, I am looking at the clues, and my first belief is the picture of the Mount is likely something that could be Ignored... as a clue. I also think the the picture of the cottage as a clue is Ignoble as well... So I have been focusing in on the last remaining picture....

As mentioned Pine would be a possibility, as would bear....
I can also picture that view from the mainland between MoultonboroughNeck and Long Island, looking towards Cow (nope not an island)

Blackcat would be a hard sell for me

[Nautique2001]

Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin

So, I am looking at the clues, and my first belief is the picture of the Mount is likely something that could be Ignored... as a clue. I also think the the picture of the cottage as a clue is Ignoble as well... So I have been focusing in on the last remaining picture....

As mentioned Pine would be a possibility, as would bear....
I can also picture that view from the mainland between MoultonboroughNeck and Long Island, looking towards Cow (nope not an island)

Blackcat would be a hard sell for me

Nope. It's not Black Cat. While there is a camp of a similar design on the island and it does face the Ossipee Mountains, the KENANDESH (Ken and Esh? Ken and E. S-H?) painted on the rock and the view don't fit.

Nor is it on Three Mile, although Three Mile and/or Hawk's Nest may be in the photo.

Yup, the umbrella photo is the key.

If this is Pine Island looking towards Three Mile, which seems very plausible, one bit doesn't add up: The fact that the skinny/pointy end of Hawk's Nest points to Pine. There isn't a dock or building on that end, but it sure looks like there's one in the photo.

Another possibility is that we have our islands shifted slightly: Hawk's Nest is at the far (viewer's) left of the photo and the island to the right is Hull--not next to it but behind it. Hull does have a building on the end facing Pine. Maybe?

[Winilyme]

Originally Posted by Nautique2001

Nope. It's not Black Cat. While there is a camp of a similar design on the island and it does face the Ossipee Mountains, the KENANDESH (Ken and Esh? Ken and E. S-H?) painted on the rock and the view don't fit.

Nor is it on Three Mile, although Three Mile and/or Hawk's Nest may be in the photo.

Yup, the umbrella photo is the key.

If this is Pine Island looking towards Three Mile, which seems very plausible, one bit doesn't add up: The fact that the skinny/pointy end of Hawk's Nest points to Pine. There isn't a dock or building on that end, but it sure looks like there's one in the photo.

Another possibility is that we have our islands shifted slightly: Hawk's Nest is at the far (viewer's) left of the photo and the island to the right is Hull--not next to it but behind it. Hull does have a building on the end facing Pine. Maybe?

Love the thinking regarding the name on the rock. Very creative. I Googled women's name that begin with ESH (it could be a letter or two are hidden by the round piece of wood. There are quite a few names that could fit - though very unusual names at that.

[Winilyme]

Originally Posted by Bear Guy

I'm going to use the mountain view for my clues. I annotated the picture below with my guess. If that one peak is really Chocorua, that says the 'umbrella' view is pretty much north, and it narrows down the swath of the lake to a vertical swath generally around Three Mile Island. Then I also derive that the cabin more or less points east.
Playing around in Google Earth, I can get that mountain profile from Pine Island, and the Hawk's Nest Island fits the image too (that's the island off Three Mile main dock).

This is some amazing work, Bear Guy. I'll be out there cruising around in a few months trying to piece together all these ideas.