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Tom Rawson · Senior Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Seattle WA

Thanks, Jim! I remember you from my Midget days. Also your brother. Larry is his name, yes? And I remember the Midget rifle range. We shot BB guns. Also I remember the Midget archery range. It was always fun to get the little medals for archery and riflery achievement at the end of the summer. They hung in my bedroom at home in Connecticut for a good decade or more after I earned them. I think the rifle medals were issued by the NRA? Little did I know at the time I would one day have some differences of opinion with the NRA! I think we shot .22s at the Junior/Senior rifle range on the other side of camp. That was fun, but nowhere near as funky as the Midget range with the old mattresses. Thanks for jogging my memory!
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1963 C-5 Walter Scheirer
1964 C-2 Bill Sloane
1966 J-4 Dave Clemens
1967 S-1 Garth Nelson

Jim Culleton · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:09 am Post subject:

Bob Kennington · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:20 am Post subject:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/opinion/the-most-important-road-trip-in-american-history.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
nytimes.com The Most Important Road Trip in American History

A friend emailed the above article from The New York Times on President Eisenhower and the building of the Interstate System across the country. My wordy response, including train-traffic to Camp Wyanoke, seemed like it "needed-mentioning" here:

Alan Neagle · Senior Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Atlanta, GA

I found out later it was rough on my Mother. Her and my Dad met with Mr Bentley and he said: 'It never gets any easier'. I remember the post card we had to send home which was meant for the campers who took the bus. One year they made everyone send it home even if you were dropped off. Mine went 'We have to write a letter home as soon as we get here. This is it.' When I went home I saw it on the refrigerator door!
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Alan Carter Neagle

David Bentley · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:17 pm Post subject: First Day of Camp

In direct response to Jim Neagle - even I had to write a letter home the first day, and every Sunday thereafter.

You Mom cherished that postcard from you! Mom's do stuff like that, Dad's want you to catch a fish!

For some families, the summer camp experience was the first separation for the family unit, and that postcard, that little 3 1/2 x 5 document, it was the "tie that binds" at that time in time.

Thanks for the post.
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C-1 49 J-7 52 S-3 55 J-10 58
C-7 50 J-7 53 S-2 56 J-8 59
C-8 51 J-4 54 S-7 57 (JA) J-8 60 - 64
1965 - 1968 Military service
Pine Cone 68 - 75 (with wife,Sherry,
and daughter Tracey)
Wolfeboro - full-time since 1997