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Geneva Point Center
An Historic Camp and Conference Center on Lake Winnipesaukee
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Geneva Point Center UPDATE December/January 2023/2024 | |
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Happy New Year!
We hope to see you in 2024
In the meantime, let's review 2023.
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NH-BOW Returns to GPC
for Year 2 Becoming an Outdoors Woman returned to GPC in September for the second time. NH BOW is an educational program offering adult women hands-on classes and workshops on a range of outdoor sports in a supportive environment conducive to learning and having fun. BOW New Hampshire’s BOW program is a non-profit group, co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation and New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. It is also supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. GPC is proud to host such an outstanding event and looks forward to NH-BOW in 2024. More https://nhbow.com/2020/03/11/fall-bow/
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Eastern Old-Growth Conference finds success at Geneva Point Center Over 260 people gathered for the 7th Eastern Old-Growth Forest Conference on September 21-23, 2023, hosted by the UNH Extension, at Geneva Point Center. The conference and field trips attracted participants from around the Eastern US and Canada and featured outstanding speakers and presenters. The University of New Hampshire Extension, in an October 16, 2023, article about the event noted, “The Geneva Point Center staff were excellent hosts and provided hearty food and various lodging options, ranging from tent sites to cabins and rooms in a historic inn or newer lodge. Geneva Point even had campfires with all the ingredients to make "S’Mores" and new friends. Our feedback survey showed that the social hours often led to an exchange of ideas and connections and were a highly-rated part of the conference.”
Read more
https://extension.unh.edu/blog/2023/10/highlights-eastern-old-growth-conference
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Also new in 2023 was the GurdyWorld Workshop & Retreat, a 4-day hurdy-gurdy workshop and retreat. Both events are already lined up to return in 2024. Read more
https://gurdyworld.com/workshop/.
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RAIN, RAIN, RAIN….AND MORE RAIN It will take a while to forget the record rainfall of the summer of 2023 or its effects on our buildings, grounds and operations. It was an all-time record summer rainfall for New Hampshire. Erosion damage to our beaches, roads and trails made for unsafe and impassable conditions and water-soaked trees became hazardous. The heavy rain water logged and weakened many trees and large limbs, some of which fell causing significant damage. Amid all the rain, there were a couple strong thunderstorms, one of which did major damage to our WIFI system. Our staff did an excellent job of minimizing the impact of rain and storm damage on our guests. As if to put a wet exclamation point on the year, a major December rain event soaked Geneva Point again and caused more erosion to our beaches.
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Making GPC a Better Place
Even with all the rain, our team of Buildings and Grounds staff and volunteers got a lot done. Here are just a few of the accomplishments this year.
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The Winnipesaukee Inn exterior was painted and had many of its widows repaired, along with multiple other painting projects at other buildings. | |
A new easy walking or rolling pathway was constructed to connect Lakeside Dining Room to the dining tent. Plans are set to continue that path down the hill and through the wooded area below the tent to the Stateline and Memorial Garden area. This will provide a more gently sloping, much easier walking or rolling way up the hill from the lower campus. The new trail will also be more resilient against erosion from heavy rain than the steep trail that currently runs straight up the hill. | |
MEMORIAL GARDEN PROJECT Significant progress was made in our multi-year effort to improve the Memorial Garden. We are especially grateful for the work of volunteers Kathy Knight, Ken and Carolyn Filpula. | |
Fire Circles around the campus were rebuilt, improved are even built anew in numerous locations. Most noticeably, the grand fire circle behind the Barn had the firepit rebuilt and new benches built for it. A new fire circle was installed in the Pasture line and covered firewood storage sheds were built and installed in several locations. | |
At Lakeview Lodge the popular front deck got a major rehab. At the rear entry, new siding, a new porch and a new door were installed. | |
Geneva Woods Cabins. All seven of the bunk cabins at Geneva Woods got new siding to replace old deteriorating sections along with other repairs. The new siding looks great and will help the cabins last for many more years. | |
Tree Work. A project was undertaken in the spring to remove hazardous trees that loomed over and around the State Line Cabins, making the area safer for our guests, their cars, and the cabins. The tree work also makes it possible to better maintain the roofs and septic systems in the State Line area. It also allowed for the development of a new outdoor program space. Later in the summer, a second tree project took dozens of hazardous trees out of the main parking lot. Tree work is an important and expensive part of GPC annual maintenance. Both these tree projects are part of a multi-year program to deal with trees that are hazardous to people and harmful to important structures across GPC's campus. Tree work in the Chapel Line and Pasture Line areas is likely in 2024. | |
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Kitchen improvements at the Winnipesaukee Inn.
The old food prep counters were ripped out and replaced with new stainless-steel tables. A new three-bay pot washing sink was installed and the primary commercial oven was replaced. A number of plumbing and electrical improvements were also made. These changes make the Inn Kitchen safer, more productive and a nicer place to work. We are especially grateful to Staff Carpenter Fred Costa for this, and many other projects completed in 2023. More work to maintain and improve the Inn Kitchen is anticipated for 2024.
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Roofs were replaced at Cabin Z, Genné and three other locations. | | |
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Adopt-A-Cabin:
College Row
Gaining Momentum
We are so excited about the project and the support already garnered for it. So far, two cabins have been officially adopted and we expect to have at least four of the six College Row Cabins adopted before next summer. Since introducing the Adopt-A-Cabin program we have modified the scope of the project to include the addition of a shower to each of the College Row cabins adopted.
If you would like to adopt one of the remaining College Row Cabins, contact Peter Claypoole at pclaypoole@genevapoint.org or (603) 2534366 extension 202. Click on any brown cabin to learn more.
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New for 2024-Disk Golf
Deep in the woods in an area once used for ropes courses, a new nine-hole disk golf course is being developed by GPC Building & Grounds Director Chris Randall and Maintenance Staffer Dave Chute. The course meanders through the woods and amongst historic stone walls. Designed for beginners as well as disc golf fanatics. The course should be ready for play starting in June 2024.
Sponsorship opportunities for each of the nine holes listed below are available.
• Hole #1 :123 feet
• Hole #2: 128 feet
• Hole #3: 246 feet
• Hole #4: 218 feet
• Hole #5: 187 feet
• Hole #6: 236 feet
• Hole #7: 213 feet
• Hole #8: 200 feet
• Hole #9: 276 feet
A $500 sponsorship gift will help pay for the baskets, disks, sight work and signage. It will also get your name on a custom wooden sign made for that hole. If you are eager to get in on the ground floor and sponsor a hole, send us a message to winni@genevapoint.org. Or, send a check for $500 to Geneva Point Center with Disk Golf Sponsorship on the memo line, to Geneva Point Center, 108 Geneva Point Road, Moultonborough, NH 03254.
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Annual Membership Giving
Membership giving is the base of support that helps maintain the buildings, grounds, and infrastructure of Geneva Point. Become or continue to be a member of Geneva Point Center Inc. by making a one-time Annual Fund gift each year or becoming a Geneva Sustainer and making automatic monthly gifts.
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Mark your calendar!
Annual Meeting: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Summer Kick Off: Saturday, June 8, 2024
Barn Party: Saturday, August 31, 2024 (Labor Day Weekend)
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We hope to see you sometime this year at Geneva Point Center.
Many thanks and best wishes,
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Peter Claypoole, Executive Director | | | | |
