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Squam Lake Camps

Posted by abohan Senin, 30 April 2012 0 komentar

Sunday was the perfect day to drive through the Squam Lake area. Touring around the Lakes Region in Spring is especially enchanting. The leaves have not yet grown in to block some of the spectacular views that will be shrouded by green leaves during the summer.

Now the clear sunshine makes the yellow-lime pastels on the ground and in the trees shine through.

Two things are noticeable.

The Holderness General Store, a delicious lakeside landmark for about 10 years, is now gone; we are the poorer – and the hungrier. And this year’s queer rollercoaster temperatures seemed to have flattened out the Frost Heave season; these roads – and the ones in and out of Sandwich – are unusually smooth for April.

Soon, we are slowly rolling onto the grounds of the Rockyworld-Deephaven Camps.

And, once again, we are enthralled by this unique Holderness “fantasyland.” (http://rdcsquam.com).

This is a miraculous dream, these rural camps that date back to 1897. They are as old-fashioned and "rustic" as you can honestly get in 21st century America: a small group of marvelous family-camp style wooden buildings, each with screened-in porches, fireplaces, private docks on Squam – and no air conditioning, telephones, televisions or refrigerators. (Each morning a block of ice – “harvested” from Squam Lake during the winter – is delivered to each cabin and put in an old-fashioned “icebox” that sits outside.)

The meals are served buffet style in one of two “campus” buildings where every “family” has its own table.

The entire atmosphere, buried deep in friendly woods, somehow pushes out the noise of typical daily life and, for as long as you’re here, things are quieter, more livable...

You talk to people you don’t know. You take walks. (You half expect meet the “lost” Henry Fonda character from “On Golden Pond," since the film was shot in and around the beautiful lake.)

Here, family members somehow talk more personally, communicate more easily; they listen to the sounds of nature, of one another, of laughter, of life...

That’s why it’s not uncommon to hear people who've only spent their childhood summers at Rockyworld-Deephaven say they "grew up" there.

It’s one of those Lakes Region spaces that allows time and space for growing.

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Judul: Squam Lake Camps
Ditulis oleh abohan
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