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Tenting Tonight

Posted January 26th, 2011 at 07:47 AM by chas
TENTING TONIGHT

“We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground,
Give us a song to cheer”
--Tenting On The Old Camp Ground, traditional Civil War song

“I love to go a-wandering, along the mountain track
And as I go I love to sing, my knapsack on my back!”
--Sing along song, Robin Hood Day Camp, early Sixties

As a boy I’d attended summer day camp, but not sleep away camp. The first time I actually went camping over night was at the end of high school, when a pal loaded up a huge family tent and all kinds of camping equipment, and we drove off for a couple of weeks in the summer to upstate New York to go car camping. Now I love nature, but being a City boy have no field craft or outdoor skills whatsoever. We came to the conclusion one that first trip one evening that High School was basically a Prisoner of War camp for teenagers—to keep them off the streets and away from decent folk everywhere. But I had a good time, and later...

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