Template:Did you know nominations/Chocorua Island Chapel

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Chocorua Island Chapel

Source:"Camp Chocorua, considered the first summer youth camp in the country" First, "the boys cleared the location for the chapel, opening up an area roughly thirty feet in diameter. They smoothed the ground out, removing most rocks and all vegetative material; according to one source, they even spread beach sand around to simulate a carpet. The clearing contained an erratic boulder that was upended for an altar and "surrounded by two stone steps." Behind the altar and close by the shoreline, the boys erected a ten-foot cross made of birch tree trunks. An oddly shaped piece of granite was "fished out of the lake" to serve as a lectern, which it vaguely resembled. For seating, they fashioned rustic benches from saplings" PP 17-18

Created by Maile66 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:29, 4 April 2017 (UTC).

Symbol confirmed.svg Interesting (hi)story, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. The hook is ok, although I'd prefer one including the "erratic boulder" ;) - I dropped "young" from "young boys". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 6 April 2017 (UTC)