Work Day

Work Day

Tuesday from 2:30-4:30 is Work Day at camp. Everyone pitches in to help fix up the place. One group may be vacuuming carpets and washing window in the Main Building, while the Sparks collect kindling, and various others are repairing chairs, fixing torn screens, replacing broken window panes, painting, hauling, digging, plumbing, cutting, clearing, sweeping, planing, adjusting, and cleaning various other things all over camp.

NEW photos on this page in recent months:
Title or Theme    Year Posted
"Putting a New Gutter on..."   2025 11/12
"Fixing a Dining Chair"   2025 11/12

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1972
1956
1948

2025

"Putting a New Gutter on Whitehead Hall"

"Fixing a Dining Chair"

2022

"Working on the Gutters on the Laird Cabin"

2019

"Collecting Kindling"

"Guys Grappling with Gutters"

"Sparks Sweeping Stairs"

2017

"Men's Room Painting: Before & (almost) After"

"Team Septic at the Faxon"

2016

"Grams Get It Done"

"Jim Clearing the Claxton Roof"

"New Screen Doors for the Perry Cabin"

These doors were made at home by Ross Woofenden, who is seen here unloading one of them from his trailor, which also contains the new platform bed he made for the Murdoch Cabin.

"One of Those Doors Going In"

"~~Leaf~~ Needle Blowing by the Play Yard"

2015

"Ben - Blower - Ladder"

2014

"Caleb Stacking Firewood"

"The Right Tools for the Right Job"

"Heidi Strong!"

"Repairs in the Lawrence Cabin Loft"

2013

2012

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2011

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2010

"Art and Ryan Sprucing Up Some Trim"

"Cut It Off at the Root"

"Raking the Sandbox"

"The Roof Sweeping Crew"

Celie Bauer and Mary Conant on the Woof Cabin (l.), and Holly Bauer and MaryBeth Bernier on top of the Taft Cabin.

2009

"Working on the Water System"

Dave Keating pauses while helping with work on the water system under the Bray Cabin.

2001

"Pop Woof Working on the Phone Booth"

Contents of Pop's hand: wire cutters, a drill bit, electrical tape. That's his grandson Ross Grams next to him.

1996

"Repainting the Entrance Sign"

"Bob Leese Fixes the Door Closer"

1972

"Work Day Junk"

The felled tree had been cut into sections, and all the beds and other junk had come out of the big, old, green, army Supply Tent that was located in the south end of the circle inside the driveway loop at that time (see 1956 photo just below). It was going to be put into another big, old, green, army tent that you can see stretched out in a long line just in front of the three standing people (the middle one of whom is Ed Schnurr) and the large tree on the right. They pitched the tent on the cement slab that is under the tent, and then put all the junk in it. It took the entire two hours.

"Taking a Break"

Jane Perry, Wendy Ashbridge (Schnurr), Ian Woofenden, Ed Schnurr

1956

"Working on the Loop"

l. to r. : Jonathan Tafel, Torgny Vigerstad, Sheldon Perry, Joe Vigerstad, Clark Perry. At the far left, that's the old supply tent down in the middle of the driveway loop.

1948

"Painting the Old End of the Kitchen"
(3 photos)

These are the only two known photos of the old end of the Kitchen before the Goddard Annex was added. That's George Dole up on the roof in both photos, and John Perry in the upper photo painting the door frame on the porch below. That door is the same door that goes into the Kitchen next to the walk-in fridge today. The upper window on the left is still there, too.

That's George Dole and John Perry again on the same day on the side of the old Kitchen that's facing Rte 302.

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