I attended Camp Wyanoke
thirty years before the film, "On Golden Pond" came out. Except for the occasional canoe, rowboat, floatplane or sailboat, Lake Winnipesaukee "traffic" was unheard of.
Wolfeboro's "little airport" made most of the noise in our quarter of the lake.
Prior to that four year stretch of crafts, botany, multi-skill/competitive swim training, high-board diving, archery, riflery, rowing, canoeing, sailing, survival skills, military skills (continued throughout many decades at Wyanoke) and films for rainy days, I summered in Tuftonboro. In Melvin Village, I could cross Route 109, and take a two-minute walk to an empty beach.
Now retired, I spend summers a ½-mile from Camp Wyanoke.
Yes,
I think the lake has changed.
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