October Weekend Work n' Play

[percypeaks]

The first weekend of October is shaping up to be a good one for productive work and some fun at Camp Kirk in the Nash Stream Forest. We will be making some quick and necessary improvements to the old two-story camp to stablize it and clean it.

Those who would like to join us are welcome to do so. If you wish to stay over, bring a sleeping bag, a pillow, and perhaps a clean sheet to throw over the bunks in the old place. Bring along a flash light. Bring some grub and refreshments with you, as well. We will provide some beer and wine. Acoustic music will be on tap, as well.

We will paint the downstairs interior, clean the whole building, put a new metal roof on the porch, jack up the west and southwest corners and place sills under the place, level out a few spots for parking, place a large tarp over the shed, and do some other odds and ends. If you can handle a paint brush or roller or hammer and saw, you are welcome to lend a hand. If you like to sing and play guitar or mandelin or fiddle or clack sticks together, you may join in.

DIRECTIONS: Travel to Groveton, NH on Route 3 and take Route 110 eastbound toward Berlin. Travel a little less than three miles to the junction with the Emerson Road on the left. Take that left and travel the Emerson Road three miles to a very sharp bend in the road. There is a white home in the bend and a cemetary on the right. The sign for the Nash Stream Road is in the bend. Take the left onto the Nash Stream Road.

Travel 10 miles, always staying in the valley, and pass over Nash Stream itself on a big stringer bridge. On the far side of the bridge begin to climb a long hill. Level out at the top and then begin a long very gradual downhill run. Near the very bottom of the downhill, just before a turn to the left, look on the left for an indistinct drive. Take that left into Camp Kirk 150 feet uphill into the woods. If you go too far you will soon see Broken Dam Camp on the right.

We will be there starting on the first Friday afternoon of the month of October. Some of us will be there through the entire weekend and perhaps a day or two longer.

You are welcome to lend a hand.

percypeaks

[MtnMagic]

Sounds like my kind of fun.
Mind if a few of us join you?

[sugarloaf]

Camp Kirk sleeps eight off the floor. More on the floor. Even more in the woods.

All the comforts of home, circa 1816.

percy peaks

[MtnMagic]

1816 is my favorite time during the history of northern NH. The Act to establish Cohoss (as it was originally spelled) County was approved on December 24, 1803. It is seventy-six miles in length, with a mean width of about twenty miles, has a total area of 1,831 square miles, of which 1,800 sq mi is land and 31 square miles (1.70%) is water [source: US Census Bureau].

Coos contains about one million acres of land. Our county name is from the Algonquian Indian term meaning crooked, the Indian name of the Connecticut River, which rises in the northernmost end of the county at the 4th Connecticut Lake. The settlers, 3991 of them in 1810 [USCB], were clearing the rocks & trees, continuing to farm, to hunt & fish, busily getting ready for the severe winter, and most importantly, living the good life.

Let us return to the past. These are the days my friends. Everyday is the good life at Camp Kirk!

[MtnMagic]

Spent hours at the marvelous camp yesterday, made a written work schedule, have the details w/material list, thoroughly looked over the lovely 2 story cottage, watched the brook beside it for quite a while admiring the serenity, and the wonderful ambiance everywhere. If it didn't have a name, I for one, would refer to it as "Camp Cozy!"

Love everything about the place, the area, and the location. The fancy sign with hand swirled letters on the north gable peak that reads " The Kirk" is delightfully charming. It's as though you've left a close old friend for too long a time, then you return to meet each other once again!

[ridgerunner]

It looks like MtnGoat and I are going to have to bail out on this one. MtnGoat will be in Oakfield, Me. from 4 to 12 Oct to get her mother's house ready for the market. Her mother wants to be out of the house by Nov 15. I will be bringing her up on the 4th and then going back to get her on the 11th or 12th.

Ridgerunner

[MtnMagic]

Could you great folks consider coming to The Kirk on Friday/Saturday instead? We'll be there on Friday. Wanted you to see the place and look over and discuss the work involved for next spring. You could even come down any time this month and I can meet you there. How's that!