A few weeks ago, I received an email from someone in Vermont whose family had owned the property that was Marcia Noyes' Camp Seyon (Noyes in reverse) on Lake George.
Marcia ran a summer camp for girls for a number of years, finally selling the property in the 1930s. We have old advertisements for the camp, recruiting both counselors and campers.
Marcia would move the main cabin across Lake George at the beginning of each summer to the Camp, which was located at Pilot Knob.
After she sold the Camp, it seemed to remain in one family for several generations. When they finally sold it in the early 2000s, they kept a lot of things from the property. Among the items were some pieces from the Camp Seyon years.
As one of the descendants was going through the papers, etc. he realized that they should be with Marcia's documents at MedChi, and not with the family, so he kindly sent them to us!
There were numerous ink printings of various ferns from the property, along with the scientific names and descriptions, all in Marcia's handwriting.
We greatly appreciate the family's foresight in making sure that we got the documents from Camp Seyon, and they weren't just thrown away.
Hello Meg, Was there no end to Marcia's talents? Now a summer camp, and with her beautiful drawings and nature prints miraculously surviving. My only reservation is its location on Lake George, as a number of the summer colonies there were restricted (in the bad sense of the word), especially those connected in any way with the horrible Melvin Dewey, whom Marcia might have known through her library work.
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Hers was a camp for girls, so in a sense it was restricted! But I get what you mean, and she probably had met the odious Mr. Dewey.
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