REMEMBRANCES OF NATURE CAMP
Here's
the place to share recent stories and photos from a Nature Camp
Mountain Ecology Adult Session, Work Weekend or other event,
tales of running into other Nature Campers "in the field"
- have
you down an "I'd rather be at Nature Camp" bumper
sticker somewhere miles from Vesuvius? - AND
old photos and memories as well.
Email
the NCF Webmaster with your story and / or photos and we'll
get your Remembrances on the website.
RECENT STORIES AND PHOTOS
Have you just attended Mountain Ecology Workshop Adult Session
or a Camp Service weekend and do you have a story to share with
those who may not have been able to attend... or those who you
attended with? The NCF website would like to help you share
your story!
Nature
Camp Brochure, Summer 1963 -- Mike Jenkins
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I
highly recommend the experience -- Allison Colony
I was a camper for 4 years, but
that was so long ago that my first year there was Lillian
Shilling's last year as director. We also didn't have
electricity in the bunkhouses or T-houses (cold showers,
kerosene lamps for lighting at night, etc.). The only
buildings that I remember for sure having power were the
LS building, the Director's/counselor's building, the
nurse's building, and the canteen. I remember many fun
activities that year, despite not having some of the comforts
of home. Then, the next 2 years we had Brent Heath for
the director, after which the Colonel arrived for my final
year as camper. I would have continued coming, except
that with 4 kids in my family, my parents had said they
would only let us come for 4 years, then we had to let
another sibling have a turn at it. I really enjoyed my
time there - I highly recommend the experience for kids
today. I hope the camp continues for many more years to
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A
Gift of Silence -- Ben Harrison
Every single
time that I've been back to Virginia in the last 20 years,
I've made a pilgrimage to Vesuvius. I've walked to Table
Rock and Buttermilk Springs and stopped in the chapel....fall,
winter, spring. Even now at age 45 I still dream occasionally
that the summer has finally come...
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A
Magnificant Ancient Oak -- Betsy Delicate Bangley
Colonel Reeves
was a man as big and tough as Mine Mountain, whose heart
was as pure as the clean. sparkling water of mountain
streams, and whose company was as welcoming as the cool
sheltering woods of Buttermilk Springs in the August heat;
whose relaxed understanding and acceptance of others was
as refreshing as pure sweet mountain air...
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Words
of Colonel Reeves at his retirement celebration --
21 September 1996
As
I look at all of you, I can't believe it. I went to bed
last night wondering if 10 people would show up. [Laughter.]
They did. [More laughter.] There are among this group
some of the finest friends I have ever had. When I walked
into this place 25 years ago ... this summer, I had with
me two people I knew: my daughter Nelle and George Tolley...
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Reflections
on the Funeral of Colonel John H. Reeves Jr. -- Flip
Coulling
I
did not attend the visitation with the Reeves family on
the Friday night before Colonel's service, but I understand
that the funeral home was absolutely packed, with a line
that stretched around the room a few times and took an
hour or so to get through. Blair Smith told me he met
Sam Lavender's widow while standing in line...
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