Hampshire Lodge
Jackson, N.H.
A tangle of naked branches, a
confusion of feelings of impressions and ideas-After the summer is passed,
we stop to evaluate. We try to make sense out of all the words, out of
the summer's act of living; We take all that has happened and make it into
something seperate from Hampshire Lodge. We say that the Lodge is a Beautiful,
Loving Community, or that the Lodge is an Impossible Dream. We say that
the Lodge forces people into maturity, or allows people to remain children.
We simplify our experiences. Hampshire Lodge is no one thing; It s a complex
place which takes its life from the people who live there. It would be
false to attempt to sum up our shared experiences in one thought or phrase.
The shattering complexity and conflict, the paradoxes; can be resolved
only in the mind of each Lodger.
from the introduction of the HAMPSHIRE LOG 1967-writer
unknown
HAMPSHIRE LODGE was a teen-age summer
camp located in Jackson, New Hampshire in the 1960s. It was very unique
in that the "kids" who went there were creative, inventive, peaceful and
"unique" in their own ways. There was one building that everyone lived
in-and we lived dorm style-two or three to a room. In the dining hall we
sat wherever we wanted and our daily schedule always changed. This was
a cultural camp-not a sports camp. We could choose from Humanites-where
we discussed books like Joyces' ULYSSES or go to World Cultures or take
a folk music class.
In the evenings there was usually
a hoot-nanny in the main living room where almost everyone got in front
of the fireplace and sang some songs.
The purpose of this page is
to hope to find ex-campers of HAMPSHIRE LODGE to hopefully have a reunion
in 2000.
I will keep adding to this page
whatever I can as I have the LODGE CHARGES for
the years I went there (which was '66 & '67). The Lodge Charge was
the weekly newspaper that was filled with activities of the week, gossip-who
was seeing who, this weeks songs, and other fun stuff.I also have loads
of pics from those years I plan on puttin up.
Oh, I didn't introduce myself.
I'm Michael Bitterman and I was the rhythm guitarist in the rock &
roll band that played those years. Off hand I remember that band also had
Barry Flast on keyboards, Dave Toorchen on bass, Bob Hertz on lead guitar
and Nina Aurebach as our drummer.
I have located the HAMPSHIRE LODGE
LIST
OF PEOPLE from '66 & '67. I print here only the names: As I hear
from these people, I will print their email and/or web address so you can
get in touch. If there are any errors, please notify asap. I have received
mail from Lodgers from other years and I have included them as well on
this page, so, anyone who went to Hampshire Lodge, plesae let me know and
I will add you to this list.
GROUP
PICTURES from '66 & '67
PHOTO
SCRAPBOOK
If you want to know more about
me you can visit my home page
I can only continue this page if I know there are
others out there who found me who went here-so, if you did go to HAMPSHIRE
LODGE in the 60s, please
Email for
info and let me know if you can contribute anything, pics, memories-as I
will start a MEMORY page.
A distressing bit of news came from Linda Spector who
informed me that a Lowes Hotel now resides at the Hampshire Lodge site.