The Stowe Historical Society will host its annual meeting at the newly restored Barnes Camp at Smugglers' Notch on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m.
The meeting will focus on the camp’s transformation from guesthouse to visitors center, and will include a presentation by state ranger Aaron Jacobs, followed by a question-and-answer session.
The visitors center will include rotating exhibits and educational programs about the area’s history, geology and ecology.
Jacobs will discuss general planning, particular features of Smugglers' Notch, and a potential boardwalk trail in the Notch. News from some of the project’s partners, which include Stowe Mountain Resort and the Green Mountain Club, will also be addressed.
A running slideshow of the Barnes Camp postcard collection and of notable rock configurations at the Notch can be viewed at the meeting.
“It’s an opportunity for people to be inside the newly renovated Barnes Camp, which was built in 1927, for the first time,” said Barbara Baraw, Stowe Historical Society president, in a phone interview. Anyone interested is welcome to attend, she said.
After serving as a guesthouse from its construction until 1973, Barnes Camp was also used as a dorm, a summer souvenir and snack shack, an art gallery, and for storage space.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders inaugurated the renovated site in June after helping to raise $781,000 in federal money toward the $1.2 million project.
Reconstruction at the camp, which was named after its original manager, Willis M. Barnes, began in 2013.
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