Stories From the Brooklyn Scout Camps
Camp Memories
Mitch Strauss
The best memory I
have is an incident that happened in '49. We had a bad summer
storm one evening sometime about 9 PM. The inevitable happened,
we lost what little electricity we had. It was decided that the
kitchen freezers would not hold the ice cream. Hence we were
requested to distribute the ice cream to the campers. Most were
sleeping by the time we got back to our camp sites. I waked one
camper up to give him the IC, he asked my what time it was, told it was
about 10:30 PM. He told me he could not have the ice cream
because it was too soon after a meat meal we had that evening and he
was strictly kosher. Another incident involved a camper who came
to camp with a washing machine. It was a little portable machine
that probably could wash 2 or 3 pairs of socks. He wanted to know
where he could plug it in to use. You can guess what my answer
was.
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