Remember When...?

Remember When...?

NEW photos on this page in recent months:
Title or Theme Year Posted
Front Porch w/out railings          1931         5/13
Boys Tents                                1933        4/16
Planted or Pranked?                 1995        1/14

2020 2022
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2019
2001 2003 2008
1991 1995
1983
1972 1974
1960 1961 1962 1965
1950 1951
1948
1930s 1933
1926

2022

Remember When...
Rev. Roslyn Taylor did her lecture outdoors?

2020

Remember When...
ice was delivered to keep the walk-in fridge cool?

This is the little door on the kitchen porch where, in the very early days, the ice man dumped the ice in. If you were to open it now, you might see the outside of the back wall of the walk-in fridge. :D

2019

Remember When...
this was made... anyone???

This was a surprise find this year. If anyone has any idea when it was made, please contact the Webmaster.

2015

Remember When...
Rev. Susannah Currie not only wore a mighty lot of purple, but also sported a purple travel mug on Purple Day?

2014

Remember When...
the Afternoon Book Club met several days each week?

NOTE: After a few years hiatus, the Afternoon Book Club started up again in 2017, and has met each year since.

Remember When...
it was the inaugural year of the Dole 3 Miler?

(l. to r.) Maggie, Alia, and Emily Woofenden

2013

Remember When...
Nate and Margaret were babies together?

2012

Remember When...
Trevor wrote the special bonus word "LALLA"
on his final turn in the first annual
LALLA Searle Memorial Scrabble Tournament?

Remember When...
Dr. Reuben Bell was on the lecture staff?

We were delighted to have Dr. Reuben Bell lecturing in 2012.

2011

Remember When...
there were Parachute Games on the front lawn every Sunday evening for Sparks Games?

Remember When...
"Louise Remembers Louis"

In her next to last year at camp, Louise Dole Woofenden was seen in the Dole Wing looking intently at the photo of her father, FNCA co-founder Louis Dole. This photo hangs on the wall in that room in his honor.

2010

Remember When...
someone from town biked to camp with their kid?

Greg Huang-Dale's bike and kid carrier bike trailer.

2008

Remember When...
Ed Schnurr and Carolyn Judson came to camp every year?

Remember When...
all these kids were Sparks?

Sparks Games on the front lawn with Caleigh Crowe, Liz Dyer, Brendan Crowe, Ruby Blackman, and Trevor.

2003

Remember When...
we held the Flames 75th Reunion?

(top to bottom) Here's the 2003 Flames remeniscing on stage, Rev. Dr. George F. Dole singing his classic Tiny Tim parody "Tinkering with the Toilets", and Josh Cook obviously enjoying the outdoor banquet.

2001

Remember When...
Ian Woof drove his converted family camper bus
all the way across the country to camp?

Remember When...
there was a phone booth in the corner
of the Dining Hall?

1995

Remember When...
these trees were either
"Planted or Pranked?"

1991

Remember When...
the Laird Cabin was dedicated?

Rev. Dr. Bill & Louise Woofenden, Dorothy Davies (Laird's mother), and Rev. Dr. George Dole on the patio at the Laird Cabin dedication.

The top picture is a more recent photo of the back of the cabin, the side facing the river.

1983

Remember When...
Pop Woof broke his leg the first day of camp?

On the morning of first day of camp in 1983, Pop Woof was up on a stepstool working on the electrical boxes in the back of the Dining Hall trying to fix an electrical problem in the Kitchen. He thought the boxes had all been turned off, but one of them hadn't. When someone asked if he was sure he was all right doing this, he said: "There's no problem. I know what I am doing." Almost immediately there was a big flash and, in his words, he got "blown across the room" and broke his leg. That's Rev. Dave Rienstra accessing the new cast.

1974

Remember When...
the Main Building was only this big?

Remember When...
the old Supply Tent was on the cement slab where the 4-Square court is today?

Merrilee and Sean Phinney talking with Nathalie Brown by the Claxton Cabin. That's the old Supply Tent in the background.

1972

Remember When...
the Flames ate in the kitchen before meals?

That's Doug White and Alice Wood (now Ames) in the foreground.

The next table (clockwise): ?? with her back to us, Malcolm Gale, Joy Fekete, Gerrit White, ? Geis, Ed Schnurr, Laura Woofenden (now Grams).

And the far table (clockwise from left): Trevor, Lynn Zimmerman, Ian Woofenden, Debbie Sjostedt (now Cook), Ben Philibert, ??, ??, and Marion Gale.

1965

Remember When...
the Woofendens arrived in their camper bus every year?

1962

Remember When...
the Flames class was held on the hill of the front lawn?

Rev. George F. Dole teaching that very same Flames class from the lower lawn.

1961

Remember When...
the Floods had their family reunion at the Assembly?

l to r: Billy Flood, Wanda Richardson held by Judy Flood, Marilyn Flood, Dorrit Flood holding Dick Flood, Nathan Flood, Harold Flood, Joy Richardson (in front), Baxter Richardson, Merrilee Flood.

1960

Remember When...
the only thing stopping you from falling off the kitchen deck was a chain?

Flames boys on the Goddard Annex porch, shucking corn for the Corn Roast on the beach that night. That's Peter Ball, Billy Flood, Richy Nichols, Mark Larsen(?), and Ricky Valladares.

Flames girls that same year.
Back row: Suzanne Melis, Cecilia Guiu, Muff Worden, Janet Buck. Front row: Susan Archer and Tina Guiu.

1951

Remember When...
the Doughnut Tree on Portland St. in Fryeburg
was a big attraction?

1950

Remember When...
there was Friday Night Bean Supper on the lawn every Friday night?

1948

Remember When...
the Main Building looked like this?

In 1948, the Main Building was only in two parts: the Kitchen, built in 1929 (not including the current back kitchen which is actually part of the Goddard Annex), and the "Assembly Room", built in 1930, which is the current Dining Hall.

The front of the Assembly Room was used for lectures, hence the spotlight that's still on the ceiling at that end which was used to light the lecturn. And the back part of the Assembly Room was used as the dining hall. Depending on attendance, this arrangement often required folding up several tables right after breakfast and setting up more chairs to fit everyone in for lectures, and then folding up the chairs and setting the tables up again before lunch.

Remember When...
there were tent platforms down by the river?

That's Alice Vigerstad looking out over the river. The Camp Historian is fairly sure that this tent platform was at the bottom of the ravine behind the Faxon Cabin.

1930s

Remember When...
the Main Building looked like this from the river?

Remember When...
the fireplace in the Dining Hall had windows on the left and a door to outside on the right?

1933

Remember When...
the boys all slept in tents?

Perhaps as many as a dozen of these old WWI army tents were acquired in the early 1930s by FNCA co-founder the Rev. Louis A. Dole for the Assembly's use. These two are on wooden platforms where the Mack Cabin and Treehouse are now. Two more platforms for the girls' tents were located where the Bray and Woofenden Cabins are today. Other tent platforms were built in several places around the grounds, including down along the river bank. Later, cement platforms were poured for at least four of them, including the ones that currently hold our 4-Square court. and clotheslines. In 1986, when the Boys Dorm was built (now the Treehouse ), the last of these these tents were finally retired.

1931

Remember When...
the front porch didn't have any railings?

Notice also that the stairs are just a narrow set of house steps and that there are no stairs at all on the other end! These steps were widened to the full width of the porch in 1933. Full-width steps were added to the other end somewhere between 1934 and 1938. Sometime in the 1940s, twin horizontal bars were added as railing between the posts. The current balustrade railings were installed in 1950 or 1951.

1926

Remember When...
the Assembly met at Fryeburg Academy?

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