Old letterhead: Mail went to Oquossoc, calls to Rangeley, and passengers to Farmington.

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Camp Windsor Hill

Rangeley Lake, Maine

The house, as seen from the dock in July, 1998

Camp Windsor Hill was built in 1923 by Albert and Gretchen Hutzler, of Baltimore, as a summer house -- a "dilatory domicile," as the old postcards in the living-room desk call it. It overlooks the western end of Rangeley Lake from a hillside on Bonney Point, which is between the towns of Rangeley and Oquossoc. Amazingly, the camp has survived 75 summers, and 74 winters, with only minor changes -- some of them made by its owners, others by the capriciousness of the hillside down which the house is imperceptibly sliding. Today the camp is enjoyed by a surprising and ecletic variety of the Hutzlers' heirs, some of them blood relations and others connected by an assortment of marriages, not all of which lasted as long as the attraction of the camp itself. Besides Hutzlers, the house is now cherished by Friedmans, Bernsteins, Guralniks, Biemillers, Hamptons, Oswalds, and others I haven't met and may not even have heard of. And of course there are the bats ...

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• Five pages of photographs taken at Camp Windsor Hill (these may be slow to download): page one, from July, 1998; page two, also from July, 1998; page three, which includes photos contributed by Judy and Jack Hampton; page four, which offers photos from previous summers (including the photo Betty couldn't show her mother...); and page five, where you can find pictures from July 2001.

  Pictures from July of 2003, the Return of the Borg.

• Excerpts from letters written from Camp Windsor Hill during the summer of 1998. (Elsewhere on this site is a poem set at the camp a few summers back.)

  New » Letters and photos from 2006.

• A collection of "Notes from Academe" columns set at Camp Windsor Hill. The columns appeared originally in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

• A somewhat livelier sampling of "Eastern Standard Time" columns set at the camp. These appeared originally in The Washington Blade.

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