Canoe Club Activity

Since the recent floods washed away one cabin, ruined another and tore the porch off the third, talents of the members of the Ledyard Canoe Club have been turned in a new direction, carpentry. Three hundred yards north of the new Hanover-Lewiston Bridge, the new Clubhouse, constructed in 1930 to accomodate sixteen canoes, as well as to provide a meeting room, remained intact, with the water rising twenty-five feet to within a foot of the front porch.

Occom Cabin, the Canoe Club's first, which is on Occom Island three miles north of Hanover, was swept under the Ledyard Bridge and over Wilder Dam. The island was covered with debris and silt, but the young pine trees, which were planted about four years ago, remained. On the island two miles north of Occom, John Johnson Cabin was carried a hundred feet past its foundation, causing almost complete destruction of its interior (bunks, furniture, etc.), while the brick fireplace and chimney in the center of the structure were demolished. (The entire island is the gift of the late Perlee R. Bugbee. It is named after the late John E. Johnson '66, who, by his interests in Dartmouth Out-of-Doors has done more for that part of our undergraduate life than any other one man.) Chase Cabin,, nestled among the tall hemlocks ori a rocky little island a mile and a half south of Hanover, lost the front porth which was most creditable to its appearance. In addition, its woodshed was washed away. Work is being done in reconstructing the two latter cabins, while the building of a new house on Occom Island will be deferred at least until next term.

The tentative schedule for spring trips includes two White River trips, two Lake Champlain trips, the most popular, a trip down the River to the Sea, a Lake Winnepesaukee trip, and a trip from Colebrook, N. H., to Hanover. The annual trip to the sea terminates at Saybrook, on Long Island Sound. This was the original location of the College. Thus, as Rev. John E. Johnson '66 expressed it, such a trip is a "fresh water Canterbury Pilgrimage to the original incipient throne of the College .... the site of the old Moors Charity School .... a wonderful case of tracing an institution back not only to its site, but also to its very roots."