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Come one, come all!

Calling all former Kehonka camper, counselors, staff – their families and any friends of Kehonka from around the world.

Click here to register online for the 2012 Camp Kehonka Reunion, which will be held Saturday, August 18, 2012 at the NH Boat Museum:

4:30p until 9:00p
Picnic and Musicale
on the grounds of the New Hampshire Boat Museum
399 Center Street
Wolfeboro, NH 03894

$45 per person – adult
$30 per person – child (12 & under)

Cost includes admission to the Museum so you can see the Kehonka exhibit, a cookout and Musicale.

Follow the instructions for online registration and pay via PayPal OR print out the form and mail a check payable to Camp Kehonka Reunion c/o Cheryl Shanahan, 4227 Brook Rd, Richmond VA 23227.

Payment Deadline: August 1, 2012

Note: this is a weekend in which many parents will be picking up their kids from area camps, and many old stand-bys, such as the Wolfeboro Inn are already booked. Best to secure a hotel/motel reservation or cabin/house rental sooner rather than later.

Have a song in your heart you want to sing during Musicale? Follow this link and post your request here!

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Stay tuned. While the main event is on Saturday, August 18, we’re working on other activities for Friday, August 17 and Sunday, August 19!

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Yes. A L M O S  T have it all together! I’m waiting on finalizing a thing or two before the online registration can be pushed live…so stay tuned. In the meantime, be sure to save the date!

This is what we know for sure so far:

4:30p until 9:00p
Picnic and Musicale
on the grounds of the New Hampshire Boat Museum
399 Center Street
Wolfeboro, NH 03894

$45 per person – adult
$30 per person – child (12 & under)

Cost includes admission to the Museum so you can see the Kehonka exhibit, a cookout and Musicale.

Note: this is a weekend in which many parents will be picking up their kids from area camps, and many old stand-bys, such as the Wolfeboro Inn are already booked. Best to secure a hotel/motel reservation or cabin/house rental sooner rather than later.

Have a song in your heart you want to sing during Musicale? Follow this link and post your request here!

Questions? Please email: ckreunion2012 at gmail dot com

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I am coordinating a Camp Kehonka exhibit that will be on display at the New Hampshire Boat Museum in Wolfeboro, NH this summer.

What we still need to “complete” the story are more three-dimensional items to be lent to the museum, especially any shop-made jewelry, woven items, pottery, art, furniture, camp trunks, memorabilia from the Kehonka Yacht Club (KYC), musical instruments, etc.

We have  photographs, a lot of paper ephemera, including song sheets and Banquet Day favors, camper uniforms from the 70s/80s, some silver jewelry (and a 5-year pin!).

If you have anything that fits the bill that you would like the Museum to consider for participation in the exhibit, please contact:

Cheryl Shanahan
email: cheryl at luckygingerstudio dot com

Please include what you would like to contribute and its provenance (era, background/significance to the camp’s story). I will let you know how to get the items to me. I must have them by mid-March as the installation of the exhibit begins late that month.

Thanks!

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A thousand thanks again to Gretchen Hurlburt Thompson, who sent me her Kehonka ephemera earlier this year. This edition of Goose Quills is from December 1949. Enjoy!

Goose Quills Christmas Edition 1949

Camp Kehonka Goose Quills Christmas Edition 1949

Camp Kehonka Goose Quills Christmas Edition 1949

And, remember:

….Christmas means gay laughter among children and all who are young at heart; wonderment even by sheep, cows and a donkey at a creche scene; white snow, sleigh bells and church bells; groups of carol singers; mysterious visits by a jolly, roly-poly fellow with a white beard, red suit and a huge sack of candies, gingerbread men, fir-balsam treese and toys; gifts, especially for less fortunate neighbors far and near; deep feelings of love, hope and faith;  – all honoring the birth of Christ whose life should inspire in each of us unbounded good will toward everyone.

May you and yours have a Very Merry Christmas!

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I am working with the powers-that-be at the New Hampshire Boat Museum in Wolfeboro, NH to set up a Camp Kehonka display, set to open to the public Memorial Day weekend.

We have photographs, camper uniforms from the 70s/80s, some silver jewelry and ceramics + a lot of paper ephemera, including song sheets and Banquet Day favors.

What we really need are three-dimensional items to be lent to the museum for the exhibit, especially any shop-made jewelry, woven items, pottery, art, furniture, camp trunks, memorabilia from the Kehonka Yacht Club (KYC), musical instruments, etc.

If you have anything that fits the bill that you would like the Museum to consider for participation in the exhibit, please contact:

Cheryl Shanahan
email: cheryl at luckygingerstudio dot com

Please include what you would like to contribute and its provenance (era, background/significance to the camp’s story).

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Save the date! Save the date! SAVE THE DATE:

Kehonka Reunion at the NH Boat Museum in Wolfeboro, NH
Saturday, August 18, 2012
4:30p-9:00
Cookout with Musicale

Details to follow…I’m trying to nail some things down Visit (and bookmark!) this page to see updates + link to the page for Musicale requests.

Note: many area camps are letting out that weekend, so area hotels, motels and rentals will be booked up before you know it. Please follow this link for information on how to get to the lake + area accommodations.

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Kehonka’s New Duckling
Linda Lee Ballentine
Enrolled: August 26, 1948
By Althea and Bally

For the record, this has to be one of the most poignant pieces of Kehonka ephemera that I have ever had privilege of seeing. Gretchen Hurlburt Thompson kindly contributed it to me last winter.

I never had the fortune of knowing Linda, who lives on in a cherished spot of many members of the Kehonka flock.

If you have any fond memories of Linda, please share them with us!

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Ha! Made you look!

Bet you wish you could be on Kehonka Hill today with all of your friends…wearing COLORS…making sundaes…eating sticky buns…..building human pyramids….singing songs….watching the counselors humilate themselves and us onstage.

Camp Kehonka 1945 Banquet Day Favor

The above graphic is a favor from 1945 (thanks, Gretchen Hurlburt for never throwing away ANYTHING Kehonka related!).

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Planning a trip to Wolfeboro or the Lakes Region any time soon? I’ve started a page with information and links relative to how to get there, where to stay, where to eat (and the “what to do” is a work in progress! Stay tuned!).

Click here to learn more.

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I had a wonderful meeting yesterday with a Wolfeboro, NH-area museum that is very interested in incorporating a Kehonka display into their permanent collection. Our camp memorabilia and memories deserve a “home” in the Lakes Region so our story can be preserved and shared with all that visit each summer.

The museum is interested in certain items either on a donation or loan basis. We’re refining a list of what may go into the initial display, so I expect to have a “call for contributions” in the coming months.  At this juncture, the “angle” leans towards items pertaining to Kehonka and its waterfront heritage (e.g. sailing, swimming, canoeing + other activities we did along the shore….weaving, pottery, shop, etc).

I am also exploring options for coordinating a Kehonka reunion in mid-August 2012 to tie in with the collection’s debut.

Stay tuned!