On Wednesday we celebrated 125 years of camping. As most readers of this blog know, in 1886 the tiny camp that had been established in 1885 set up at Lake Wawayanda in New Jersey. Eventually that camp split into two - in 1901: one camp, subsequently named Camp Dudley, moved to the Adirondacks, and Camp Wawayanda, led by Charles Scott, remained at Lake Wawayanda. So we can rightly claim that the first camp was ours - that Dudley and Wawayanda started together 125 years ago.
More about our celebration in subsequent blog posts. Meantime, click on the image here to see a closer-up view of a proclamation entered at the U.S. Congress noting this occasion.
