Workshop in the Woods
Summer Enrichment Program for ages 6-14.
Art, Nature, Performance, Craft, Nature, Community

Students will have an opportunity to learn from professionals while building community and gaining an understanding and appreciation of ecology, art, performance and craft. The program's goal is to encourage create expression, build self-esteem, and foster a love of neighbor and nature. Workshop in the Woods is a program developed to support summer fun and community pride. Workshop in the Woods is led by Stacey Fix and other qualified workshop specialists.

For further information please visit: www.workshopinthewoods.org

Location is VFW Route 133, Georgetown.

Please call if you need tickets for yourself and please contact all your friends. Raffle and auction donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

For additional information check back soon or contact:
Bob and Marlene Apprich
978.352.2086

Boat Applications now available

BOAT AND CANOE TIE UPS AVAILABLE AT CAMP DENISON
Twelve to fourteen seasonal boat and canoe tie ups are available for rent at Camp Denison located on Baldpate Pond. . Applications to secure your canoe during year 2006 are available on line at Permit Page or available at the Georgetown Conservation Commission’s office in Town Hall. The fee is $25.00 for the boating season which runs from April 15 through October 15. For persons with handicaps or over 65 years of age the fee is $20.00.

Boats must be twelve feet in length or shorter and be carry-in transportable. There is no length restriction on canoes. All boats and canoes must be carried from the entrance road to the tie up area. (About 200 feet of distance.) A log chain device is provided close to the shore line of Baldpate Pond to secure each watercraft. Owners assume all liability for their craft in or out of the water. All funds generated by this activity are deposited into a town account dedicated to operating and maintaining Camp Denison. Facilities for handicapped persons to drive to the launching ramp area are available.

The deadline for submission of applications is April 10.

GRAVE FOUND AT CAMP DENISON

Camp Denison volunteer, Bob Goodwin, was surprised while pruning brush along one of the hiking-cross country skiing trails in the woods at Camp Denison. What looked to be a grave site appeared in the leaves along side the path. One might think his first reaction would be to call Chief Mulligan but it wasn’t what he did.. Instead he scraped away the leaves and wood debris from the long ago burial site and found a three foot by six foot mound outlined by stone and mostly covered with smaller rock. This certainly fit the typical dimensions of a grave. Since the potential burial site was obviously old, Goodwin turned to the historical buffs in town to see if anyone knew of someone being buried in the woods at Camp Denison. Another volunteer, Arthur Gaudette asked historian, Gloria Mania. She could not recall anything but agreed to look in her vast collection of historical notes.

Sure enough, in one of her interviews with the late Satria and Eleanor Stetson, she had recorded a note that around 1777, a son of the Perkins’s on Nelson Street was digging a cellar hole for a house for his future "Bride to be" when he died of smallpox. He was buried in the area that was known as “Oak Dell”. He was buried along a wood road that once could be seen if you walked along the old railroad bed.

A search of Georgetown records so far has not uncovered any Perkins family, but there was a Perking family living in Rowley. Georgetown was once part of Rowley as was Boxford.

Supposedly a large stone was used as a headstone to the grave. When time and weather permits, the ‘Volunteers” will carefully search to see if anything nearby fits the description of a headstone.

For those of you who enjoy hiking and cross country skiing, there are many wonderful trails available to the public at Camp Denison. It is located off Nelson Street from Route 97 just past Stewarts Auto Repair Shop. When conditions permit, the volunteers will be sponsoring a ski and snowshoe outing for all interested persons.

Below are picture highlights of planned long and short term implementation activities.

View Nature Center Pictures Here.

This Nature Center and future upgrades will be used as an environmental resource center for the Camp and will display and store information about the natural habitat and used for environmental educational activities.

View Cabin Area Pictures Here.

The Camping Area Cabins require restoration as resources become available.

If you are interested in viewing other images at Camp Denison you can:
View Camp Denison pictures here.

Boat and canoe tie-ups no longer available until next season

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