2025
Pinewoods Camp Centennial
| We introduce this Pinewoods Centennial logo as a symbol of celebration in 2025. The design is based on the original drawing by Frank Edwards for the first Pinewoods Post in 1975. This year we are honoring our history and looking to the future as a place of community. Happy Centennial! | |
Centennial Celebrations
The Pinewoods Centennial is here! Join us at Camp or online, as we celebrate our past, present, and future. Click HERE for a full list of activities.
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Fine Companions Registration is Open
Remembering Pinewoods Before 1976
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Genny Shimer and others dancing Morpeth Rant at Pinewoods.
Photo courtesy of The Pinewoods Camp Collection, 1907-2008, MC288, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. Photographer unknown.
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Tuesday, June 10 - Friday, June 13
This unique camp session will focus on a relaxed schedule at Camp: dancing and singing, sharing memories, and reflecting on the evolving culture of Pinewoods from 1944 when Lily Conant inherited the camp, until October 1975 when PCI purchased Pinewoods. It is open to all interested campers and is also an opportunity to share Pinewoods with a partner who has only heard about it over the years. Register today!
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Winter Zoom Series:
Bringing Pinewoods History to Life
| Reminder to register! Learn about Pinewoods’s rich history, starting in February. | |
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Helen Storrow, Pinewoods Camp, and the First Girl Scout Training School
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
7:00 pm ET
With Francine Edwards
Click HERE to register
Photo: Ruth (Walsh) Wright Collection, Girl Scout National Leader Training School, 1919, Pinewoods Camp, Long Pond, Plymouth, MA; Courtes of Girl Scout Museum at Cedar Hill
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The Conant Family and Pinewoods
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
7:00 pm ET
With David Conant
Click HERE to register
Photo: Family Photos from the Conant Family Archives; Courtesy of David Conant
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Becoming Pinewoods Camp, Inc.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
7:00 pm ET
With 1975 board members and Bill Abbott, attorney for the Conant Family and PCI
Click HERE to register
Image: Pinewoods' tree logo, drawn in 1975 by Frank Edwards for the first Pinewoods Post
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Save the Date: Crew Reunion
As one of many Pinewoods Camp Centennial celebrations, a committee of volunteers is putting together a special Reunion and Work Weekend for former Crew, current Crew, and long-term Volunteers.
Registration coming in March. For more details visit the website HERE.
If you are a former Crew member we want to connect with you; please update your information HERE, or pass this on to former crew that may be out of touch.
| Crew Photo Courtesy of David Shewmaker | |
Join Crew!
Crew and Volunteer applications are OPEN for the 2025 Summer Season!
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Experience the joys of being a part of Pinewoods Crew. While campers come and go, Crew lives in this beautiful place for the entire summer. Crew enjoys music, dance, and song, and the camp community while maintaining the energy to respond to campers and each session's needs. Crew is behind the scenes, helping to make the magic happen.
Become part of the Pinewoods Crew family. Dance, jump in the pond, learn new things, and create memories you'll treasure forever. As we celebrate the Centennial, you'll find that this family extends back through time and into the future by providing an intensely rich summer in the present.
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Top left: Crew Olympics, weighing out bread. Top Right: Crew members heading to a Scottish Ball.
Bottom Center: Catching crew members in a joke during dinner. Photo Credits: Alan Duffy
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Celebrating Indigenous Voices | On Wednesday, November 19, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey issued Executive Order 637 providing the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe with state recognition. This action acknowledges their rich legacy, genealogy, history, and ongoing endeavors as well as the diligent and tireless efforts of their Tribal Council. Learn more HERE. Congragulations HPWT! | |
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) hired Leah Hopkins in the role of Indigenous People’s Partnership Coordinator. This is the first position of its kind in Massachusetts, in which Leah will be “responsible for maintaining meaningful relationships and improving the understanding and collaboration between the state’s conservation agency and Indigenous communities across Massachusetts.” Leah, along with her husband Jonathan James-Perry, were instrumental in guiding Pinewoods Camp and its Board of Directors through the process of developing our Land Acknowledgement. Learn more about Leah and her new role HERE.
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Leah Hopkins in Newbiggin, 2021.
Photo Credit: Chris Jacobs
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Found! Pat Shaw’s Pinewoods
The work weekend at the end of the season offered people-power and time to dig for treasure in the last few unexplored boxes in the inner reaches of the “Cave” … under the Pinewoods Camp, Inc. office… beyond the paneled room for Pinewoods logo sales… and behind the furnace in the very back corner. And there was a full box of Pat Shaw’s Pinewoods, published by Pinewoods Camp, Inc. in 1985.
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50 years ago, in 1974, Pat Shuldhum-Shaw taught at the two CDSS dance weeks at Pinewoods after which he wrote a gift of dances and tunes as a donation to the fund to purchase Pinewoods Camp. He self published an initial collection, Between Two Ponds, in 1976 and sent the booklets to Pinewoods. He was to return to Camp in 1978 with his second collection. Tragically he died suddenly in November 1977. Marjorie Fennessy collected the finished - and the mostly finished - dances and tunes from the second collection, and fine tuned them through the lens of Pat’s work. Then she, Genevieve Shimer, Helene Cornelius, and Marshall Barron created this book, edited and prepared for publication by Kate Van Winkle Keller.
| The book is again available for purchase through the CDSS online store, or this summer at Pinewoods in the Logo saleroom. | |
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While there's so much uncertainty in our changing world, Pinewoods remains a safe space where all are welcome and we can come together and learn from one another.
~Pinewoods Board of Directors
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A Sense of Place
A Frosty Dawn on Long Pond
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Photo Credits: Chris Jacobs | |
Missed November's Pinewoods Post? Click HERE.
Missed December's Articles & Announcements? Click HERE.
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