Camp Lowell was established by the shores of Lake Annabessacook in Winthrop ME to provide a summer camp for the choir boys of Emmanuel and  Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill.  Boys from our mission Church of the Ascension also attended for two weeks in its first summer.  The camp, which had sleeping accomodations for 28 campers and 2 staff, was named in memory of Charles Lowell, late treasurer of Emmanuel.  Its trusttees were Charles H. Kip, John Lowell, and William Blodgett.  John Collins Bossidy famously toasted, “Boston, the land of the bean and the cod / Where Lowells talk only to Cabots / and Cabots talk only to God,” but it was no doubt belied by the fellowship of Emmanuel, where Walter Cabot Baylies picked up Charles Lowell’s baton and served as warden from 1907-1935.

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