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Bob Kennington
Founder W. H. Bentley
Joined: 02 May 2007
Posts: 210
Location: Winter Harbor
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 Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: A Hello from Bob Kennington, 1953-56 |
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Running into Dave Bentley at the Post Office was a major prompt to check at this site again. It's HUGE!
I'm located on Winter Harbor, just a mile west of Camp Wyanoke, and watching the airport change—just as Camp Wyanoke changed. (But it looks like we could still land a plane there!)
I recall the late Merwyn Horn (now Ralph—how his name started out) stating that he would always take off and land "downhill" regardless of the wind direction. I may have that statement on a videotape I made in 1997, just months before he died.
The "Wolfeboro forum" has also changed. It was a phpBB site like this one, but lost the forum part. The latest is www.wolfeboro.net—if you're interested in goings-on or Wolfeboro politics, etc. The forum is evolving, just as the old forum evolved.
Another good site is www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/ for goings-on in the Lakes Region, for lake photographs submitted by members, and for seven or eight live videocam views of the lake.
Anyway, I hope to gather my various Wyanoke mementos and submit them eventually. (I'll be temporarily digitized in August, which will help a lot). |
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Bob Kennington
Founder W. H. Bentley
Joined: 02 May 2007
Posts: 210
Location: Winter Harbor
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Had lunch with my dad, Gordon B. Kennington—Wyanoke 1929-1935? What a storehouse of information! 
He put a lot of his old stories into perspective for me, and I hope a few of us can fill in a few blanks.
He remembers "Coach" Jenkins, and mentioned Reed Henderson, a name even I remember. He mentioned that a school in New Jersey (or New York, second choice) was named for him.
My dad was later in charge of the sailing fleet, which consisted of Amesbury boats (which I thought were the rowboats), and Cape Cod Knockabouts, which I'm certain are the sailboats. Those I sailed in.
Those, in turn were superseded by a lighter sailboat with a "winged S" on the sail some time after 1956. (I have a Wyanoke postcard with those later boats—'cost me a buck two years ago.)
He threw out a few names:
Judy Burnage (need to find out where that name came from again).
Bill Jacobs was a full-blooded Sioux Indian—the grandson of Sitting Bull—who played college football and taught archery (what else) and Indian lore.
Major Dargue (Army Air Corps) landed a seaplane off the Wyanoke dock to pick up his son, a camper there. The seaplane was built by Grover Loening (the consultant to the Wright Brothers on their airfoils...I spoke with Grover Loening in Miami, FL around 1970).
Harvard Flying Club George Fox has some relationship to Wyanoke with his "Fleet" aircraft—I'll have to flesh that one out later.
He had mentioned long ago about a friend who had died of appendicitis, but I never knew that it was on a hike up Mount Washington, and that he was a Wyanoke camper  . His name was Freddy Gardner (ph.), and though he was taken to Huggins, he was released due to his Christian Scientist refusal to surgery. He didn't survive.  Freddy was carried eight miles by Wendell Carr, whose name I read here for the first time! My dad mentioned a (?) Stevenson with Glen Oak Camp at Mt. Washington, just as a passing footnote.
Pretty good memory for a 90-year-old, huh? 
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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? |
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Jim Culleton
Site Admin
Joined: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 265
Location: Potomac Falls, VA
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: Chipmunk |
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Bob, how did you tame that chipmunk? That is a great pic! Enjoy your posts . . . . . lots of history there!
My dad just turned 89, Bob, so he would be a year younger than your dad. Because of Wyanoke and the beauty that the Lakes Region offers my dad bought some lake front property over in Tuftonboro (view of Mt. Shaw and Melvin Village) back in '59. He still lives there with my sister and brother-in-law close by. It's one of the few areas left that still looks the same as it did 50-75 years ago!
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'56 - J-9 J. Moulton
'57 - J-11 J. Moulton
'58 - J-4 E. Web Dann, S. Hood
'59 - S-6 P. Leavitt
'60 - S-2 F. Avantaggio
'61 - JA-1 RK Irons
'62 - C-9 JC with P. Freeland
'63 - C-1 JC with S. Borger
'64 - C-6 Councilor |
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DavidAyars
Founder W. H. Bentley
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Posts: 263
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| Bob Kennington wrote: |
My dad was later in charge of the sailing fleet, which consisted of Amesbury boats (which I thought were the rowboats), and Cape Cod Knockabouts, which I'm certain are the sailboats. Those I sailed in.
Those, in turn were superseded by a lighter sailboat with a "winged S" on the sail some time after 1956. (I have a Wyanoke postcard with those later boats—'cost me a buck two years ago.)
...Pretty good memory for a 90-year-old, huh? |
Greetings, Bob! Nothing like a new active participant to get things humming again on the forum.
I closed out...sank??... the Wyanoke sailing program, following in the immortal jibes of those who went down to the lake in ships before me, including JA tentmate Steve McDavitt and perenially hungover former counselor Russ Hatch, who taught me everything I still remember about sailing, including how to tie a bowline: OK so the rabbit comes out of the hole goes around the tree and goes back into the hole... no, you idiot, not that way around the tree... this way...
Sometime between 1957 when the O'Day sailboat company was born and 1965 when I first disgraced Winter Harbor's shores, camp acquired its closeout fleet of five or six O'Day Daysailers, probably the same boats as on your postcard. I remembered camp's boats being 10' long, but according to what I could find on the web, the shortest boats the O'Day company made in its day were 12' long. (Could be... I never checked 'em with a tape measure-- but it seems to me they had small, stamped metal plates on the inside of the hulls that identified them as 10' O'Day Daysailers.) Anyway, these boats were little fiberglass bathtubs and about that maneuverable, but they had two saving graces: they were almost impossible to sink (and not even easy to swamp), and two boys (even three small boys, in a pinch) could comfortably fit in them.
Sails didn't last as many summers as boats, so those "S" sails were gone by the late- if not by the mid-1960s. We'd have the sails patched when we could, but finally replaced them all in an order from another New England sailmaker whose name I've forgotten close to the end of camp, at a cost of something like $150-200 per boat. BMB also considered buying a large sailboat you could take twelve boys on at a time, even taking me on a shopping expedition with him for my expert(???) opinion-- this was all his idea, not mine, though I strongly supported it-- but he never followed through on it, probably because of the cost, which I remember as being low-five figures plus more dough for the trailer... which was an awful lot of money for him to consider spending on one activity in those lower-cost days.
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Camper: J-8 1965 (Kevin Ryan), J-8 1966 (Mike Freeland), S-6 1967 (Russ Hatch), S-3 1968 (Jeremy Cripps), and JA-2 1969 (Dan Mannis).
JC: J-2 1970 (Bill Bettison) and J-3 1971 (Gene Comella). Councilor 1972, J-5 1973, and JA-1 1974 & 1975 |
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Bob Kennington
Founder W. H. Bentley
Joined: 02 May 2007
Posts: 210
Location: Winter Harbor
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| Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: Re: Chipmunk |
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| Jim Culleton wrote: |
Bob, how did you tame that chipmunk? That is a great pic! Enjoy your posts . . . . . lots of history there!
My dad just turned 89, Bob, so he would be a year younger than your dad. Because of Wyanoke and the beauty that the Lakes Region offers my dad bought some lake front property over in Tuftonboro (view of Mt. Shaw and Melvin Village) back in '59. He still lives there with my sister and brother-in-law close by. It's one of the few areas left that still looks the same as it did 50-75 years ago! |
1) Chipmunks are easily bribed with sunflower seeds. (Just make a trail to wherever). I've got a photo with a chipmunk looking up at me from inside the sleeve of a shirt I'm wearing—and another photo with a front paw on my chin!
2) Well, at 92, my Dad's lost a teeny-tiny bit of the sharpness he had at 91, but he's still kickin'!
Gordon, Terri and I go out to lunch/dinner once or twice a week during the "On-Season". He drives, carries-on a running historical commentary of the countryside, and I take in the scenery.
Dad drives every day to breakfast/lunch/dinner. Being Christmas Day, they're likely out partying with Terri's kin in Sanford, Maine—which is why—as yet—I can't wish them a personal Merry Christmas Day.
While researching WW2 air crashes for another site, I came across this mention about the above-mentioned Major Dargue. I can't say that my Dad knows of this, though he will expound at length on the B-18, which I've never heard of!
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| 12 December - Major General Herbert A. Dargue, en route to Hawaii to assume command of the Hawaiian Department from Lieutenant General Walter Short, is killed when his B-18 Bolo, 36-306, of the 31st ABG,[86] crashes in the Sierra Mountains, S of Bishop, California, in worsening weather conditions. Wreckage not found until March 1942. (Joe Baugher cites discovery date of 5 July 1942.) |
3) The above Wolfeboro website ran out of zeal or money, but there is a new site that needs more than just six people (of 25 members) to keep it from mostly arguing about the present administration. 
Though it has four or five forums, Wolfeboro is still not a "talkative" town—forum-wise.
http://wolfeboro.forumcab.com/index.php
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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? |
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