Last night, enjoying very cool temperatures and a bright moon overhead, Lakota, Outpost and Forest villages gathered for an evening program we haven't tried in many years: "The Ichabod Crane Revue." The Revue features debut stories and first-time story-tellers, plus skits as commerical-like in-betweens. Last night the story-tellers were Alex Toy, VC of Outpost, and Hannah Raskin-Gross, a much loved counselor in Lakota. Both stories were terrific. Alex's was a humorous tale of camp pranks from the old days. Hannah's was a "scary" story of noises coming from underneath cabin 46. The skits were two from the early years of camp: "The Important Papers," and the ol' "Ugliest Man in the World" (except that it wasn't "ugly" but "funny and weird facial expressions"). "His expressions are so weird...so weird....they'll make your eyes stick out like Kookamunga Nuts!" Sandy Shapiro Bohn was there and snapped several pix of your MC.
The cool temps prevailed. We held the event outside at the stage in Hirdstock Field. The kids spread out on the grass, Hirdstock style, wrapped in sweatshirts and blankets.
Later I told a story at Lenape ("Doubletop Plane Crash Mystery") until 11:30 PM and then brought with me to the Lakota CQ fire 8 jumbo juicy gourmet burgers, which were properly grilled over a welcome hot fire, and we all ate happily beyond midnight. As I walked back from this grill session, I counted my lucky stars to be that gastronomically satisfied, that late at night, under a million lucky stars indeed. And the cold? It was 44 degrees! Perfect. I slept like a rock.
