Saturday, July 7, 2007

1963 hike

Homer McLemore leads Lenape campers on an overnight hike, 1963. Homer identified the campers for me: R. Lewis, M. Pitcher, P. Cole, R. Scharf, R. Gershem, R. Schiffman, R. Pimenthal, D. Eisman. Check out the white Wawayanda sweatshirt. I once owned several of these gems. And the Wawayanda sailor hats were de facto uniform, especially on overnight hikes. I can remember that for a few years we carried out of a camp a #10 can of baked beans: at dinner time, we opened the can a little, stuck it in a campfire, stirred often and ate beans with our roasted hot dogs. Well, that was in 1967 or so. Homer's group here is '63 and I'll be they brought some more legit food for their overnight. (Could these kids really be in Lenape? The seem a bit young.)