The Olde Forum is unavailable right now, but I'd guess I've been around this forum since 2001. Like many others posting to the less-disciplined
Olde Forum, I'd assumed a few different user-names. "Acres per Second" (APS) became the name I've had the longest.
"APS" just expresses the concept that slower boats use less of the lake at one time than faster boats—keeping in mind the 150-foot, "Safe Passage" rule. It was pleasing to see the concept used at an official Concord hearing recently.
The family started in Tuftonboro in the 30s. Two generations went to camps Wyanoke and Winnemont, then finally settled down on Winter Harbor in 1956. The folks elected not to have a telephone, so things slowed to a crawl every summer for us kids. Neighbor-kids visiting neighbor-kids by boat or nightly walks was the norm. When a flashlight was forgotten after an over-long visit on moonless nights, we'd walk home with our footsteps guided just by "starshine".
The family camp "got away" after twenty years of ownership, but we continued to rent it from the new owners, and finally bought it back. We didn't know it at the time, but the price was a steal that has become a legend around Lakes Region realtors. That legend was unknown to me for 15 years—until last September—but I would have sold both kidneys to get the family camp back!
