Talking about the Hurricane of '38 in Marlow, Pat told how her husband’s parents were married the day the hurricane came, and spent their honeymoon night at Camp Tecumseh on Lake Winnipesaukee. The camp was owned by family.
After the storm passed, the family went to camp to “look for the bodies” – because the trees were down all around the place and surely something bad had happened to the newlyweds.
When found snug in their cabin, Dr. Josiah McCracken and his bride Barbara said, “What storm?”
Evidently they were concentrating on other things.
In researching the spelling of Tecumseh, I discovered that the camp was founded in 1903 by three Olympians from the University of Pennsylvania: Alexander Grant, George W. Orton and Josiah McCracken (must have been Josiah the elder). “They believed that a summer in the White Mountains on the natural sandy shoreline of Lake Winnipesaukee working on their farm, swimming in the lake, learning the skills of various sports, singing on stage and climbing mountains was a healthy experience that would, in their words, ‘Make good boys better.’”
Camp Tecumseh is still in operation – and maintains that same philosophy.
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