1940’S AND REMAINED CLOSE TODAY. ♪ SEAN: IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT, IF YOU COULD TURN BACK TIME TO WHEN YOU WERE A KID AT SUMMER CAMP. ♪ IN SOME WAYS, THESE TWO FORMER CAMPERS HAVE DONE THAT. >> THERE’S A LOT OF HIKING TRAILS, A LOT OF NATURE. IT IS REALLY GREAT. SEAN: LIFELONG FRIENDS DAVID ROSENTHAL AND PETER SCHAPIRO FIRST MET AT SUMMER CAMP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE IN THE 1940’S. AND FATE WROUGHT THEM BACK TOGETHER. >> IT’S LIKE WE NEVER SEPARATED. SEAN: NOW IN THEIR 80’S, THEY ENDED UP YOUR AT NEWBRIDGE ON THE CHARLES IN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS SENIOR LIVING CAMPUS, LINED WITH TRAILS HAS REKINDLED THAT SUMMER EXPERIENCE DECADES AGO. >> I LOVE IT. IT IS LIKE CAMP. JUST LIKE CAMP. SEAN: SO MUCH SO IT SEVERAL FORMER CAMP FRIENDS HAVE BEEN DRAWN HERE. >> WHEN I FIRST MOVED IN, THERE WERE FOUR PEOPLE WHO WERE CAMP COUNSELORS. THEY WERE HERE. SEAN: WHAT MAKES THEIR BOND STRONG ARE MEMORIES FROM A PLACE ON LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, A PLACE CAPTURED IN THIS PAINTING DAVID LOOKS OUT EVERY DAY. >> THE IDEA WAS AS SOON YOU OPEN THIS, IT WAS HEAVEN. SEAN: THAT SLICE OF HEAVEN WAS CAMP OULTON. NESTLED ON LAKE ONE OF THE PSAKI, CAMP OFTEN STARTED IN 1937, PRIMARILY DRAWING YOUNG JEWISH KIDS FROM CITIES ALL OVER THE NORTHEAST. >> IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS. AGAIN, WE WERE ON THE POINT, SO THERE WAS A POINT, WHICH WAS WHERE THEY USED TO MAKE CLAY BRICKS. SEAN: DAVID ROSENTHAL, THAT IS HIM ON THE FAR RIGHT, CAME TO CAMP ALTON IN THE EARLY 1940’S FROM BOSTON, WHEN HIS DAD WAS INVITED TO HELP RUN THE CAMP. >> WE WERE BROKEN DOWN INTO AGE, SO THE CUBS WERE THE YOUNGEST, THEN THE FRESHMEN WERE IN A LOWER CAMP. NOT SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS AND SENIORS. SEAN: A KID FROM CONCORD TO HATCHER, PETER SCHAPIRO ARRIVED AT CAMP. DAVID AND PETER BUMPED IN THE SAME CABIN AND HIT IT OFF AS BUDDIES AND IMMERSED THEMSELVES IN CLASSIC SUMMER CAMP ACTIVITIES. >> IN THE MORNING THERE WERE INSTRUCTIONS, SO WE WOULD HAVE INSTRUCTION IN SWIM, INSTRUCTION IN ATHLETICS. ARTS AND CRAFTS, NATURE, DRAMA, MUSIC, AND THEN, DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AT NIGHT. WE HAD DRAMA NIGHT, MUSIC NIGHT, SATURDAY NIGHT WAS MOVIE NIGHT. IT WAS ALWAYS AFTER HOT DOGS AND BEANS, SO WE DEVELOPED A SONG. HOT DOGS AND BEANS ON SATURDAY NIGHT ARE UNFAIR TO US MOVIEGOERS. >> WE WOULD EITHER GO INTO TOWN TO SEE A MOVIE OR GET CANDY OR YOU WOULD GO ROLLERSKATING. AND WE USED TO TAKE A BOAT CALLED THE SWALLOW TO PLAY THE PINBALL MACHINES AND WHATEVER. SEAN: FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, THE PAIR RETURNED EACH SUMMER TO CAMP ALTON FOR THE EIGHT WEEK SEASON. EVENTUALLY BECOMING COUNSELORS, WATCHING OVER YOUNGER CAMPERS. FRIENDLY SPORTS COMPETITION WAS A CONSTANT THEME BETWEEN THE GREENS AND THE GRAYS, THE CAMP ALTON TEAMS. THE TWO MEN REMEMBER PLAYING BASEBALL, SOFTBALL, TENNIS, YES, EVEN SOME BOXING. DID YOU WIN? >> NO, NO, JEANNIE GOLDSTEIN BEAT ME TWICE. SEAN: AMAZINGLY, 70 YEARS LATER, THE CAMP MEMORIES SURVIVE, INCLUDING THOSE CAMP ALTON SONGS. >> OH YEAH. >> SUCCOTASH, SUCCOTASH, EBOLA BEANS, A HUNK OF HASH. BEANS, TOMATOES, TIPPED THE WAITERS. SEAN: THE PAIR WOULD EVENTUALLY GO TO COLLEGE, THEY EACH GOT MARRIED AND HAD KIDS. DAVID BECAME A DOCTOR AND EVEN RETURNED TO CAMP ALTON AS CAMP PHYSICIAN. PETER BECAME A LAWYER AND WORKED FOR A BRIEF TIME FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE. AND IN 1992, CAMP ALTON WAS OFFICIALLY CLOSED. YEARS LATER, CLAY POINT WOULD BECOME SOME OF THE MOST LAVISH HOMES ON LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE. BUT IN SOME WAYS, CAMP LIFE WAS NOT OVER. IN THE YEARS SINCE, CAMPERS HAVE STAYED CONNECTED THROUGH THE CANYONS AND SHARING OLD PHOTOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. AND DAVID AND PETER BOTH RETIRED TO NEWBRIDGE WITH THEIR WIVES. >> IT WAS JUST LIKE CAMP. OF COURSE, THERE WAS NO WOMEN AT CAMP. YOU ASKED BEFORE. THEY HELP US KEEP THE BUNK CLEAN. SEAN: THESE TWO CAMP BUDDIES CAN RELIVE THE OLD DAYS AT THE GYM OR WALKING THE TRAILS. NOW, IN RETIREMENT, BUT HOLDING ONTO MEMORIES OF SUMMERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. >> WE STILL EXPERIENCE AND EVEN DREAM ABOUT EXPERIENCES THAT WE HAD AT CAMP. IT IS LONG LASTING AND THE MEMORIES ARE INCREDIBLE. ♪ GOD KEEP YOU SAFE WE PRAY. PRAISE TO THE ALTON. ROCKET MAN OF STRENGTH AND COURAGE, WE THE ADORE ♪ ♪ >> THAT WAS IN THE KEY OF OFF. ♪