DO YOU REMEMBER
Canteen
Color War
Rifle range
The Infirmary
Joneses
Pizza
The Annual Fair
Capture the flag
Wish Plates!!!!!!!!
Bats in the bunk
Mice in the bunk
Scavenger Hunts
Penny candy line
The Lonesome Pine
Paper Bag dramatics
Friday night services
Milk line and Bug Juice
The overnight camping
Lackawaxen canoe trip
The Little
Roller-skating in the barn
Don’t
forget to TAP Johnnie
Sunday camp fires & s.mores
Playing 9 hole golf in Bushkill
Waterskiing outside of camp
Fred (Derf) and his 3x5 cards
Arts and Crafts under the barn
Canoe trips down the Delaware
Making Lanyards (arts & crafts)
The good food that was served
The
The snake pit if front of the office
Saturday night ‘Canteen’ dances
Cottage cheese and apple butter
Saturday night ‘Canteen’ dances
How cold the bunks were at night
Daddylongleg spiders in your bed
The ducks at the lake, always there
Winning Volley Ball games with Bib
Sandwiches for the Friday lunches
13 mile hikes to the Ranger Station
Being in the chorus of South Pacific
Who will play King Neptune this year
Kissing goodnight at the Bridgebunk
Friday was hike day and box lunches
Huge dragonflies that bombarded us
The waiters in their all white uniforms
The last night of Color War…The Sing
Kissing goodnight at the Bridgebunk
Crying for hours the last night of camp
Extra swim time on those very hot days
Three day canoe trips down the Delaware
No talking at all after Friday Night
service
Sneaking out to Fernwood (not only
hiking
Making Jean Nate Fires on the shower
floor
Asking for cereal instead of liver for
dinner!
Going down the street for horse back
riding
Smoking on the dining hall porch after
meals
Our
camp uniform
called "reggies" that we
Watching the shooting stars at night in
August
Lefty the owner of the general store in
Bushkill
Dance recitals for the parents on the barn lawn
Burying letters under the “The Lonesome
Pine”
Being forced to dance in " THE RED BALLON"
The George M Cohan
tribute on the 4th of July
Walking into Buskill
at night from the Camp site
Fighting with my counselors and getting
"docked"
Sharon Wexler as Annie in “Annie Get
Your Gun”!
Receiving mail and special foods via the
Meeting the boys (girls) on the rifle
range at night
Ma and Pa Kettle, Francis the Talking
Mule movies
Seeing the kitchen help peeling scads of
potatoes
while
taking the lower Path to the athletic field…...
Matt Jasner with his ruler at the dances
in the barn
Head counselor’s daily inspection of the
each bunk
Writing letters to yourself to be opened
the nex year
Top girl crushes, 60’s: Hank Donner and Kurt Pontz
The yelling of “woman on the hill or man on the hill”
Our cracker jack
volleyball team playing other camps
Waiting for packages of grandma boonshaft’s brownies
Copper enamiling jewelry for my mother ( still have a pin)
Stealing chocolate milk from under the
mess hall at night
Friday night and no talking (almost burning down the bunk)
Throwing Peggy and I in the lake after
the sing in Color War
(We were captains and Linda Lou Kane was my
Lt)
Nature walks in our boots up that little
stream that fed the lake
Seeing the deer early in the morning on
the boys baseball field
Locking our head counselor Max in his
bunk and dragging our
Making wax figures from the candles
after candlelight services
Finding out that Liebestrum
was not a song about
Beds
from
the bunk and putting them up and down the girls hill
Friday showers with brown soap and
industrial strength shampoo.
Ironing each others hair and borrowing
clothes before Canteen Night
Riding in the back of the pick up truck
to the away games ( volleyball)
Liebestraum and candle floats the last night of
camp…called Firefly Night
Audrey Lehrman
blowing in her bugle on her way to the Shower House---
to warm the bugle up. (Girl’s Shower
House…an awful memory)……………
I think we were NOT on Daylight savings time - does anyone remember ?
Winning awards throughout the summer for
swimming, boaring, archery, etc.
Remembering the older boys had to sleep
in tents but we were in the "Roost"
Visiting camp friends in NJ and thinking
it was very far away! ( I'm from Philly)
The year of the hurricane when the
regular buses couldn't get to camp so we took
school buses and had to cross over the
Most fun - Riflery
( I am very anti gun now) , the over night canoe
trips and water skiing
Bunk raids and putting someones’s underware up the
flagpole which Marv had to take down
Can you add
more to this
list?
Please
send to Ron Cohen, reunion@IndianLakeCamp.net
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