Ingersoll Scout Reservation Staff Alumni

David Lane sent me an email recently announcing that ISR is hosting a Centennial Staff Reunion on 10 July 2010. That's the centennial of the Boy Scouts of America, not the camp. FYI, etc.

I don't think I'm going, but I still recommend that you go. It will be a blast, I'm sure. Why am I not going? It sounds like I might be angry or annoyed at something, doesn't it? That's not the deal.

Prior to hearing about this reunion, I was making plans with a few other camp friends to go to camp a week or two before the summer camp season started. The centennial reunion sounds like a good time -- but it sounds like a frenetic, program-based, do a hundred things in a day or weekend time.

Do you know what I -- we -- want to do? I want to sit in a tube, on the Cedar Creek, letting in at the Indian Ford Bridge, smoking a cigar, doing absolutely nothing. I want to wander out to the Far East side of camp, to Beaver Bend, to the prairie grass field, and sweat like an idiot while cutting weeds with a hand weed whip. I want to walk the camp from side to side, up and down, with a camera. I want to go to Hickey's Billiards in Abingdon and sit on a stool. If all of this takes less than three days, it's going way too fast for me.

So, maybe I can be convinced. Maybe.

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