Lake Winnipesaukee - in Popular Culture and The Arts

In Popular Culture and The Arts

  • Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town, refers to Lake Winnipesaukee at the beginning of Act III.
  • In a Three Stooges 1940 short "No Census, No Feeling", the Stooges are census takers, and Curly answers a query about his birthplace with "Lake Winnipesaukee". When Moe asks him to spell it, he switches course, and says "Make that Lake Erie. I've got an uncle there."
  • Some boating scenes from the 1981 Academy Award-winning film On Golden Pond were shot on the lake, though the main scenes were from nearby Squam Lake.
  • In 1982, composer Alan Hovhaness, who spent much of his childhood in New Hampshire, composed Lake Winnipesaukee, Op. 363, a sextet for flute, oboe, cello, two percussion, and piano.
  • The 1991 movie comedy What About Bob? was set at Lake Winnipesaukee, although the actual filming was done at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.
  • The 2006 comedy Click has a flashback depicting Adam Sandler as a kid playing on a beach on Lake Winnipesaukee.
  • In the debut of Adam Sandler's "Thanksgiving Song", on Saturday Night Live (November 21, 1992), the New Hampshire native sings, "I used to go to camp at Lake Winnipesaukee".

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