Fine Companions

Remembering Pinewoods Before 1976

A Pinewoods Centennial Camp Session


Dancing Morpeth Rant
Courtesy of The Pinewoods Camp Collection, 1907-2008, MC288, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

Tuesday, June 10 – Friday, June 13, 2025 

Registration open Monday, January 27.

Pinewoods Camp, Inc. is offering a unique, Centennial, mid-week session in June 2025. This session will focus on a relaxed schedule at Camp, sharing memories and reflecting on the evolving culture of Pinewoods from 1944 when Lily Conant inherited the Camp, to 1975 when PCI purchased Pinewoods. The session will also feature the English and American musical traditions offered during most of the sessions during those years. Fine Companions is open to all interested campers and is an opportunity to share Pinewoods with a partner who has only heard stories about Camp.

The session opens at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025, and departure time is no later than 10:00 am on Friday, June 13th. 

Why Is Pinewoods Hosting This Session?

Pinewoods Camp, Inc.  offers this special Centennial session for three primary reasons:

Reason #1: To offer a gathering opportunity for the people who shared the second quarter of our hundred years (the Conant years)  in Camp and for us to share back with PCI our stories and memories of that time.

Reason #2: In our Centennial year, we’re looking for ways to welcome back anyone who has not been to camp for a number of years.

Reason #3: To test out a model for a less demanding, more casual camp session. The schedule is, intentionally, light on programming, offering a less active option each period, and doesn’t run as late into the evening. An intent of this session is to play with a possible template for program providers to use, should they decide to offer a similar kind of session in the future.

What Do We Mean By a “Relaxed Schedule at Camp?”

  • See our draft schedule to know what the session will look like.
  • A schedule with dancing, singing, and socializing with a balance of opportunities for those who want to move and those who want to sit.
  • Special periods devoted to looking at the history of camp, and sharing your own experiences of camp over the years.
  • There will be multiple ways to share memories, songs, and tunes.

Please take a look at our draft schedule to see what the session may look like (please note: the schedule is still subject to change!) And read our FAQs about the program for this session.
See a draft schedule HERE.
See FAQs HERE.


People in the Kitchen – Pinewoods 1973
© Suzanne Szasz, rights holder: Linda Swenson. Used with permission from Linda and Courtesy of The Pinewoods Camp Collection, 1907-2008, MC288, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

Who Should Come?

Please join us! Registration is open to all. Priority will be given to people who attended camp prior to 1976 and those individuals who have not returned in recent years regardless of what years you attended. We want to see you again. 

Special Accommodations

  • Upon arrival at camp, there will be assistance in getting to your cabin if requested.
  • An 8-passenger golf cart, with wheelchair accommodation, will provide transportation assistance around Camp throughout the day and evening for those who need it.

Program Directors

Marney Morrison, Susan Creighton

Advisory Committee

Brad Foster, David Conant, Michal Warshow

Our Wonderful Staff

  • David Millstone calling dances and coordinating guest callers
  • Alchemy providing dance music (Karen Axelrod – piano; Rachel Bell – accordion; Eric Martin – violin, viola, foot percussion)
  • Jeff Warner leading song sessions
  • Lisa Greenleaf hosting Morning Gathering and Memory Roundtable 
  • Dereck Kalish running sound
  • Susan Ceighton, Jo Rasi, Liv Jacobs, and Pat MacPherson leading an Archives Workshop: Snapshots in Time
  • Laura Sprung leading a crafts class
  • Hank Chapin leading a morning Qigong session
  • Various musicians leading jam sessions


Morris dancing during a CDS(S) Thursday Demonstration open to the public
Courtesy of The Pinewoods Camp Collection, 1907-2008, MC288, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

Please complete a registration form for EACH person attending. In case of a lottery you will be accepted with the person/family with whom you are applying as designated on your registration form.

Options for Attending the Session

  • Option 1 – Full Participation / Onsite Sleeping: Come to Camp and stay onsite.
    Option 1 Cost for the Session: $295 per person
  • Option 2 – Full Participation / Offsite Sleeping: You can stay somewhere offsite and come to camp for the day and evening. (Please note: campers are responsible for making their own offsite arrangements.)
    Option 2 Cost for the Session: $235 per person
  • Option 3 – Day Visit / Thursday afternoon: We are saving a few places for Pinewoods Community members to attend on Thursday, June 12 from 12 noon – 5:00 pm. Lunch and afternoon tea are included. These are reserved for people with specific concerns that prohibit attending the entire session.
    Option 3 Cost for the Session: $25 per person

Registration & Payment Timeline

February 15: Registration deadline.
(Please do not send money until you have been notified that you are an accepted camper.) 

  • Priority will be given to those campers who attended Pinewoods prior to 1976.
  • Priority will also be given to those campers who have not been to Camp in recent years.
  • If the session is not full as of the deadline, all registered campers will be accepted. 
  • If the session is full as of the deadline, campers will be placed in a lottery honoring these priorities.

March 1: Campers will be notified of their registration status, and given payment information.

March 31st: Full payment due. Payment may be made by check or credit card.

If no lottery is needed, we will continue to accept registrations in the order they are received until camp is full. We will then build a wait list, if needed. The cancellation policy will apply to all registrants regardless of time of registration.

Cancellation Policy

If you need to cancel, please let us know as soon as possible by emailing , or by calling the Camp office – 508.224.4858

Cancellations by April 15 will receive a full refund minus a $20 processing fee.

If we can fill your space, cancellations after April 15 will receive a full refund minus a $50 processing fee. 

If we cannot fill your space: 
Cancellations by May 27: you will receive a 50% refund.
Cancellations by June 10: you will receive a 25% refund.

Cancellations for a verified medical emergency at any time will receive a full refund minus a $20 processing fee.

Last year’s COVID policy was very successful and is being repeated. HERE is 2025’s policy.

Housing

If you plan to stay in Pinewoods housing, please note the following: 

Path to Longborough
Photo by Alan Duffy

There may be more demands for particular housing requirements than camp is able to accommodate in this session. We will do our best, and will be in touch to discuss any potential housing issues with you. As such, we cannot guarantee specific requests.

The following cabins are accessible without steps: Little Hunsdon, Hit and Miss, Pine Needles, Grenoside, and the first floors of Pinecones (2 rooms) and Hunsdon House (1 room). All other stand alone cabins have steps to enter, and the stairs to the second floors of Pinecones and Hunsdon House are steep.

Due to the anticipated demand for access to bathrooms, Pinewoods will also be providing in-cabin chamber pots upon request (they were a regular cabin feature until the 1970’s!).

Pinewoods will be providing additional night-time lighting near bathrooms to make night-time navigation easier, however we encourage you to bring a headlamp and/or additional flashlights.

Here is a link to the current map of Pinewoods Camp.

Registration

Registration is now open, click HERE to register!

Other Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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