An article in todays Press Republican indicates that the members enjoy cold summer drinks with ice cut from a local pond and stored in an ice house. How cool is that?
Another old club, the Ausable Club at least has a webpage, even if only to advertise for local summer help. Google "Ausable Club" and you get 767 "hits". Google ny "underwood club" -carrie and you get 39 "hits".
Will someone please spill what they know about the Underwood Club?
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My family's been a member for several generations.
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I've been going there since I was a kid. My family has owned a camp there since the 1960s. There was a private-press history of the club published about 10 or 15 years ago, by a member and amateur historian who did some pretty extensive research. If you can track down a member they might let you borrow a copy.
My Uncle was married to a woman whose family were members. We went there a few years in a row in the mid 1970's. The place is fantastic. I would kill to be able to fish on New Pond these days. I was a kid from Brooklyn so when we went up there it was like paradise. I loved the huge house we used to stay in. It had this fantastic porch that we would all hang out on at night.
Yes, it's true, the members love their cocktails chilled with ice chopped off an ice block from a local pond. At least they used to when I would go there as a kid. My grandmother owned a camp there and my family would spend the greater part of a week vacationing there every summer. The greatest memories of my childhood are of hiking, boating, and playing cards in front of the enormous stone fireplace. Caretakers would come in at 6:00 am every morning and start a rip-roaring fire. What service! I'd spy on them from the balcony overlooking the great room. We, too, would hang on the gigantic screened-in porch and swing on the old, red couch swing. It doesn't get any better than that.
There is a copy of the book, 2. The Underwood club 1908-1991 : town of North Hudson, Essex County, New York, Snyder, Patricia K. (1992)
Call Number Shelf Location Status
(1 of 1 available)
HOLDEN 974.753 Sny
Folklife Center Non-circulating
At the Crandall Library in Glens Falls. Non circulating, so you have to request it and read it in the library
Sounds like the. Johnson camp love. Y'all. L. Mo
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