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So the sign in the picture posted by WFIL.says the camp was founded in 1916. I take it there's a difference of opinion if we're saying this is the 100th anniversary year. Who has the definitive info?
WFIL
November 4, 2013 11:45:21 (EDT) |
Tiger, the Aussie kounselor's name was Noel Stansell ('66 and '67). As I recall, he was also the kamp sharpshooter.
Yes! Let's reune asap (nobody's getting younger).I'd forgotten Girish Roy (whose breath I'd always thought unforgettable). Doc also hired Noel __________ , an Aussie traveling the USA on an army-surplus Harley. Last name, anyone? Any other furners at KK?
Oui, Reine Marie Antoinette never made it to Les Etats Unie. The asylum was populated by French nobles; when Napoleon allowed them to repatriate, they left PA immediately.
KKW,
Tiger
I cast my vote for 9/15.
For Tiger
I used to go by that spot often as I headed off to college up in the Finger Lakes. It spoke of an asylum that was prepared for Marie Antoinette by some French loyalists in the area. Sadly, it was never used for that purpose. She ate cake in France.
As a rabid Sox fan, I loved this post-season. I found myself offering up this response on Wednesday night:Victorino, ino, ino.
Victorino, inoah.
Hoorah, hoorah
Red Sox, Red Sox
Rah, rah, rah.
Cards, Cards Cards, Yea!
Although our memory begins to fade as the years pass the memories of our days at Kamp Kewanee grow brighter with the years. From the shores of Lake Manataka let's gather for another reunion in 2015 and celebrate the 100th birthday of the kamp we love.
Great thread. Tiger, I do remember an historical marker near Wyalusing(Sp?). Didn't the Jr. Canoe trip start at Wyalusing and end in Tunkhannock? The marker was on an overlook. Somewhere I have a picture from the overlook with an Indian (South Asian) person. Was he a counsellor? As far as liability insanity, I remember riding in the back of the truck on the lodge benches over some very unimproved roads. I definitely remember both bridges. The first time on the concrete arch one, I was doing fine until the "gap". That was as far as I ever went. There was also a rope and tire swing somewhere and we would drop into a creek/swimming hole.
OK, I'm hooked. Yeah, yeah, Pont du Gard, Kamp Lawyers,etc. Crazy--I just was telling someone about not having a helmet for riding a bike when I was a kid; then I got to thinking about Kanoe Trip helmets & lifejackets (hah!). Baseball batting helmets (after the late John Gold got beaned). And the Nicolson Bridge (which website I showed to my acrophobic wife. Whole thing ended up morphing to online look at "French Azilum" on the Susquehanna River (anyone but me remember an historical marker?). If we WANTED to escape KK, we couldn't.
At my 55th Cheltenham HS reunion a couple of weeks ago I had a chance to reminisce with a couple of childhood friends about our Tom Sawyeresque adventures when we were young. It would never happen today! Talk about KK lawyers! My children would never let their children do what we did. We were very lucky, indeed!
BS has encouraged me to post this:
Texas Review Press has just released my new book of poems Bonfire of the Verities. It is available at Amazon (either type in "michael lieberman bonfire of the verities" or click on the URL: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_25?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=michael+lieberman+bonfire+of+the+verities&sprefix=michael+lieberman+bonfire%2Cstripbooks%2C204&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Amichael+lieberman+bonfire+of+the+verities). Here is a link to a short YouTube video in which a I read "Grant's Atlas of Anatomy" from Bonfire; it reflects my sadness at not recognizing (in spite of my being a physician) that my mother's emotional distance in her last few years was the result of a series of ministrokes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwXLqwUIDJ0
BS Cohen
October 15, 2013 20:12:07 (EDT) |
Yes, I'm sure the next generation learned how to "mind the gap" that Bugs remembers.
By 1970 the lawyers must have seen what the Kampers were doing because there was no climbing the Bridge. We did bring a second paid of shoes for the hike back, however.I wonder if anyone who is old enough to have gone to Kewanee could take that plunge into the creek today.
I now remember the "jump". I am still shaking. If someone had missed, the kamp would have closed prematurely.
Nicholson Hike: Yes (climbed across only one archway section) but you omitted that after reaching the "landing" where the 1st arch ended and the 2nd began, we would jump across the gap (about 6') between one side of the archway to the other side. There was also the debate about how many construction workers fell to their entombment in the concrete.
The jump into Tunkhannock Creek was a part of the Nicholson Hike as well as its own destination overnight hike (small farm with some cattle/cows grazing). If the jump wasn't enough, there was an electric fence there which dispensed group electro-shock therapy: kampers would form a human chain grasping hands, then the nearest/bravest/stupidest kamper would touch the fence to see how far the shock would go down the chain!
Led the hike 3rd. or 4th. year as a kounselor.Directions were never discussed just followed telephone poles took a left and so forth. We did climb on the bridge.Potential liabilities to great to imagine.
To Bob Tiger Levy: Bob, I just ran across your message on the website and your comment about still knowing about butterflies marionettes etc--I have had the same experience with my wife of 55 yesrs and my daughters. I can still name most of the butterflies (some moths) and know most of the Gilbert & Sullivan songs, marrionette shows etc: They get a kick out of my yelling "Net, Net": all the best.Norm
Dick Sundheim
October 14, 2013 11:35:29 (EDT) |
Dave, we did it all. I do not know about the kamp's lawyers or insurance advisors, but some of us also were kounselors when we went. BS also talked about a "nice splash" after a long hike. I guess he forgot about the next hike back in very wet shoes.
BS
October 13, 2013 21:31:53 (EDT) |
Yes, we did, Dave. Not really through a section of the bridge (at least not in my years), but quite a bit upwards. What we did NOT do is jump off the bridge - that was another bridge that we reached just before the big one, about ten feet over Tunkhannock Creek. Quite a nice splash in the creek after a long hike! Maybe we should arrange a pilgrimage some summer?
Is it my imagination or did we really climb through one section of the Nicholson Bridge using metal hand-holds in the walls of the bridge (and without a net). If so, where were the Kamp's lawyers, insurance advisors, and for that matter, the Kamp's Kounselors? Dave
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