The Council Room

[Mike Freeland]

In 1964, Garth and I took a pre-camp trip for two weeks into the Pemigewassett from Franconia Notch, and after a week or so, emerged at the Crawford House in Crawford Notch (a huge white wood-frame hotel which burned down a year or so after that). We wanted to call home to let our parents know we weren't dead, and the phone we used, in the employees' area, was one of those wall-mounted jobs you used to see on "Lassie" with a fixed mouthpice, a funnel-shaped bakelite earpiece on a frayed cloth-covered wire, and a crank which woke up the operator (with a good shock, I think). It took nearly 20 minutes for me to make the long-distance call to Pennsylvania. I gave the operator the number etc., then waited for her to call me back. Funny thing was that the phone was so primitive that neither Garth nor I knew how to work it at first. Thank God for "Lassie".

Even then, it amazed me that the phone was so antiquated. That was Crawford Notch in '64. It probably wasn't too many years prior that 3-digit phone numbers or crank phones disappeared from the southern parts of NH. In fact, I remember that the phone in the dining hall for years had no dial at all. Just pick it p and an operator responded. I did that once. Scared the hell outa me.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[Bob Kennington]

Thanks, Dave. I'd Googled only "Mercury Match" and didn't turn up anything. Using the whole address turned up an answer, but with a different date when they closed for good.

[Bob Kennington]

This pamphlet, described as published in 1956, appears here:
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showthread.php?p=103712

"1956 Wolfeboro Chamber of Commerce Brochure".



The small-appearing shoreline "notch" at the most distant part of the runway is the opeining to Johnson's Cove. The airport's developer—who bought much of Johnson's Cove—got hosed by the town for a property tax increase, and the whole works is now in foreclosure.

In 1956, Camp Wyanoke lay beyond that "notch", and reached nearly to Carry Beach. (Far right-hand corner of Winter Harbor—Jockey Cove and Wolfeboro Bay lying beyond Carry Beach in the hazy distance). Aside from one lakefront lot, just one house has been built since the runway was torn up in 2006.

The shore of the Cove nearest the runway has not had any buyers for the four or five steep lots platted there. The little beach—what'd we call it?—and its three-acre soggy lot is available for $4½-million. (Though a bargain there may be had right now).

I'm thinking that the huge grassy clearing across the water from Wyanoke is the Melanson property off Highland Terrace. (Melanson is a local businessman who sold off lots on Rattlesnake Island. That island lies "just around the corner" from Wyanoke's Winter Harbor).

I'm certain my dad (a local pilot and a pre-War Wyanoke alumnus) knew of the proximity to Camp Wyanoke when he built his retirement home on three acres of that same land.

Some people just can't lose that attraction of yesteryear!
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Gordon B. (Father) Wyanoke ~1929-1937
Midget C-1 (1952, 53) (Belden, Edwards)
Junior J-7 (1954, 55) (Scheirer)
1967-1971 Military-Naval Security Group
Sister: Winnemont 1955-56

Blue: there's another color?

[Mike Freeland]

It's kinda fun to think that, depending on when that picture was taken, I might have been under those trees somewhere, Midget ball field, Cabintown Chapel, Midget rifle range or tennis court. Maybe in the water. The old sawmill was at the end of Johnson's Cove back the, in ruins. I forget what year it was removed, but I remember being told tories of "The Thing from the Old Sawmill of Johson's Cove" and the like when we had overnights at Land's End. That was my first summer at Wyanoke.

There is a kind of sweet irony at the collapse of the developent of the Neck at the old airport site. Probably and unfortunately forestalling the inevitable. I think you're thinking of Old's Beach out there at the end of Johnson's Cove across from Land's End. It was a fantastic place for an overnight, and the beach was really nice.
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'56-C-9 C. Mosher '57-C-9 Bill Feaster
'58-J-14 H. Peavy '59-J-11 G. Wood, C. Duncan
'60-S-8 R. Leavitt, D. Hemphill '61-S-1 E. Slocum
'62-JA-1 H. Dunbar '63-C-2 (JC)
'64-C-5, (JC) Councilor
'65-C-9 '66 - '72-J-8
'73-JA1 '75-J-6